From the course: Color for Design and Art
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The painter's color wheel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Color for Design and Art
The painter's color wheel
- There's nothing like hands-on experience with paints to solidify and expand what we know about color. So whenever I get to talk to designers about color, I suggest strongly that they paint, just for fun if nothing else, to really come to grips with both color theory and color application. Now before I get into painting supplies and actual painting projects, I want to return to something we talked about way back at the beginning of this course, it's the color wheel. This color wheel. The standard model that most art schools use when they're teaching about color. Well, how do I put this? This color wheel, the one that we all know and love, it's a lie. Well, okay, it's not really, like, this outright lie. But it's not exactly true, either. The traditional color wheel with red, yellow, and blue as its primaries, it doesn't quite mesh with the reality of how colored pigments behave in the real world. But don't go and throw away everything that we've talked about here about the color…
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