Color Theory

[ravells]

Wonderful...thank you! I shall read with interest. Hopefully they'll start to publish all the other chapters too!

[palehorse]

Wonderful...thank you! I shall read with interest. Hopefully they'll start to publish all the other chapters too!

Well, there a lot more over at the Seven Camels blog; he's a former Disney animator. He posted chapters on composition, life drawing, and drawing folds and drapery. Reading those are what inspired me to track down my own copy of the FAC!

[palehorse]

And now it probably seems like I'm harping on people's color choices over in the Finished Maps section! Honestly, though, there are some really amazing maps on display here, and I think the one big thing keeping a lot of the good ones from being great are the same things that artists have been struggling with for centuries: picking the right colors!

And the real kick in the butt is, color theory is one of those things that can just completely throw you until you get that "light bulb over the head" moment and it all clicks. And even THEN it can still be a struggle!

So hopefully, if anyone thinks I'm harping on them about it, I hope they know they're in very good company, because, like I said, it's something almost every artist struggles with!