UNLOCKING VIBRANT ART: Why your colors fall flat

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I think my biggest issue is I don't trust myself lol, so I don't trust myself to "step" out of the box, if my reference picture looks blue to me I'll use just plain blue and panic when I notice it looks flat because theorically, I know using different, bolder or just mixing other colors will fix it but what colors? I always struggle with that part

Valuable lesson as always!

Very cool, thank you for this understanding! I have improving to do with colours, but I've been doing better at make them stand out. I want to be able to do this with photo manipulation, 3D, digital art, and traditional! Ha ha! But I still make some things darker than I want to. So...work in progress, but I LOVE seeing lighting and colour pop the way those images do. :D

This is honestly one of the most valuable videos on the subject on youtube. The problem of flat color in digital illustration is a huge hurdle for artists to get over. And it's something alluded to all the time. But nobody has ever broken it down in quite this way. Seriously man, you're going to save lives here.

Thank you so much for that video! It's a bit complicated for lower level artists like me but it sure has a lot of quality content! I'll make sure to work on experimenting with colors more!

Bro speaking to my soul in the first 20 seconds

i intentionally make my colors flat in honor of my girlfriend

That was really helpful thanks.

thank you so much this was very helpful

EXTREMELY HELPFUL, thank you! As I've been experimenting more with color lately, I have run into this exact problem. I will apply your lesson here, and practice practice practice. Thank you Mr. Edlin!

Digital paint won’t mix itself - so true! Traditional painting almost guides you through, and with digital tools you have to manually do a lot of things that traditional paint does itself.

Slap ✍️ on ✍️ random ✍️ colors ✍️. got it!

how do you balance layering paint against overpainting?

He sounds like a teenager.
I think that makes the video better.

I'm glad to know my innate disrespect for anything vaguely authoritative and binary led me to never like the colors I got with eyedroppers and helped me avoid some of this

whoa this is something I've noticed I've been struggling wirh recently, thank you so much for the free advice :)

I am a painter (barely..) and don’t know how to do digital art yet but this is really helpful for me too. Thank you YouTube algorithm!

Thank you very much for the video. I often forget or am too lazy for many of these steps. So your video just gave me a reminder to do and to take time with my art. I use MS Paint and I've been layering colors for a long while now. Therefore, it's doesn't matter which art program you use as long as you can use it, have fun with it and create art with it in my opinion.

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Excellent video!

Well, since I mostly draw cartoons. I choose flat colour so often 💀

multiply layers can be really helpful with stuff like this! not quite the same or as good, but decent in a pinch

I don't actually care so I'm not gonna watch the video, but in the thumbnail the one you described as right looked so painfully generic, while the one you described as wrong looked beautiful. I'm just saying

15:25
it was better with the colours he went with originally, ngl

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That rim light on your head🙏🏻

Great video and great tips! thank you!

thank you this is very helpful!!

hi can you make a detail video of wacom tablet stetting and photoshop brush setting for digital painting..please

Thank you for the video. It really helps to get more explanations on how and why certain things look the way they do (good or bad). It just helps improve the overall understanding and how to improve. 😁

Whoaaaa...... Jerry Seinfeld does art.

sometimes what I find that helps me get started for a color palette is to block in some basic colors on one layer-- as in, what the characters/objects would look like in a studio white light, then blocking in a second layer of "shade" colors in basic darker colors. 

Then I lock the pixels of both layers, and repeatedly duplicate those layers, covering either the base layer or the shade layer with different overlay/multiply/lighten/color or whatever else layer types according to what color light/shadows I'm looking to hit. if the shadows get too dark, I can duplicate the "shade" layer and bring in some color with a lighten layer, etc, or an overlay. if the shade and base layer don't feel as if they're gelling together as one image, I can put a layer over the top of the entire image to "unify" the colors. once I have it all together I smash all those reference layers into one composite layer and use it as a starting off point to actually color the image in. 

I think it's a good middle ground way of getting to know colors, especially if the prospect of just picking colors from scratch seems overwhelming.

Thanks Andrew Tate

1. Digital won't mix themselves 1:16
2. Color should be layered 4:05
3. Basic color mechanics 10:02
4. Tinting and shading 13:25
5. Colors lack appeal 15:49

Just layer colors. Simple.

In RGB there are like 255 shades of blue to white. If you are trying to go darker it is even worse. While the screen is 1920 pixel wide at least. So you have to mix optically if you dont want to your image to be blocky.

Just paint like you are on shrooms boi

this video is really helpful I found myself suffering the same problems with my art, this does help a lot with what I can do with it

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Love the energy that you have in this video and thank you for your wisdom!

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Hello, I just wanted to tell you that this video leveled up my art right away-- I truly love the results I got when I took this points into consideration. thank you so much ;w;)

Your video is great
And if you add some background music it will become more good