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Hope you guys find this coloring exercise as useful as I did. It really helps with getting those colors just right in your pencil drawings. Check out the free worksheet template here: www.kirstypartridge.com/colour-theory-worksheet
You're more useful than my school art teacher
Hi kirsty, the video was really useful, but I wanted to know which app do you use so that you can pick exact colour as you showed it on your ipad
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Thank you so, so much for this help, Kristy! Could you share with me which purple Polychromos pencil color name that pencil is at the 5:30 minute mark?
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These are nice exercises. I would also recommend trying the same thing using yellow, cyan, and magenta as your primaries. I find that those three colors make more vibrant secondary colors, and makes for color wheels with more even increments.
Well yeah, since those are the actual primaries of subtractive color. The red-yellow-blue model taught to children is, frankly, an outright lie. There’s a reason printers (both the machines and the people) use CMYK color.
Yep this is why printer's use these 3 colours to create the rest
in college, I got tired of hauling around a big bag of colored pencils. Even now, I just carry around a true blue (cyan), process red (magenta), and yellow prismacolor, and just blend them, like how an inkjet printer would.. I'll only bring in additional colors if I need special effects (deeper blacks, intense red, sodium vapor light, etc). Hugely improved the quality of my art.
What is a sodium vapor light
@@marandamarotz2611 It's a light that generates light by exciting sodium vapor. Those older yellow-orange streetlights use sodium vapor lamps
This is amazing. Thank you.
Do you know the CMY color names for Caran D'ache Luminance? I would love to purchase just those via open stock.
@@donnahughes9575 I've never used Caran D'ache. From the color layout they have, I might start with Purplish Red 350, Yellow 10 or Canary Yellow 250, and Light Blue 161 or Gentian Blue 370.
This is one of the best and most informative video on color theory for colored pencils I've ever seen. Thank you Kirsty for sharing.
Yay, so happy to hear that! 🥰
@@KirstyPartridgeArtI concur. Was going to say the same thing. Thank you for making the video. Its good revision for me. Thanks again Kirsty.
Yes I absolutely agree.
Thank you so much for this video. Very informative and extremely useful!
something you should know about color theory that this video gets very wrong, no hate, is that red blue and yellow are not primary colors. do this exercise with cyan magenta yellow and black. the true primary colors! they lied to you in kindergarten. red blue yellow make a very muddy yucky color wheel.
Oh my goodness, I have painted with acrylic for years but still have problems with my color mixes and how to make my paintings improve. I do believe watching this video has helped me to understand color theory in a way I never could grasp before! Thank you so much, Kirsty! You are an amazing instructor!
Being colour blind i struggle no end with colours nicely named pencils and pens are a big safety net for me.
I am red-weak, I like to open a pic in digital software and use the color picker tool. The RGB value is the most helpful thing I've found (just be aware of additive vs subtractive mixing)
Omg, me too. I love colored pencils but they have to be with a name on them. I got twistables for fun, but they don't have the color on them. So either it's random colors or I need to ask someone which can be annoying.
May I ask you colorblind artists, why you incorporate those colors, which you struggle to see? Wouldn't it be easier to exclude those for your work? I'm curious. 😊
@@dolsd2386 if I didn't use red, my paintings would be cyan... I luckily can perceive red a little, so it's not like I see in cyan; just like it's impossible to describe color or light to a blind person, it's hard to describe color blindness to a sighted person. It's hard without allegory at least. Take the few blind artists that can draw, I personally don't understand why anyone would ask them why they do it... But I'm sure they still get asked lol. It's a strange question when you think about it. Likewise, I am also hearing impaired, and a musician. What I once thought to be a detriment (and it rather was without hearing aid) turns out to have great benefits for mixing, and alas there are many people in the field of audio with hearing issues... That field is just a bit different because the art itself can inflict the damage haha. I guess the takeaway is, don't let your limitations limit you, because those barriers you give yourself are usually self imposed excuses... At least that's my experience. I do want to try a painting using just cyan now, it honestly never occurred to me... Sorry for the ramble haha always keep creating
@@dolsd2386 and on the topic of colored pencil names, brutfuners are pretty helpful, a d good quality for the price.
This is like my entire semester of Color Theory uni class in one video.
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except that hopefully at uni you learned the actual real primary colours of cyan, yellow, and magenta?
One of the many reasons as to why college is a rip-off.
I don't have this issue you seem to have. But great exercise.
I’m absolutely blown away! You’ve rejuvenated my colored pencil fascination. This is the easiest to understand color theory/colored pencil tutorial I’ve ever seen. (I’ve been around for a hot minute.) Thank you for this, I’m truly grateful!✨🙏✨
I am a complete beginner and I know you have saved me so much pain and suffering by just sharing these tips and the worksheet. I am thankful to you Kristy
This video is so timely for me. Thanks for posting on how to blend with a 12-color set. The last two days I've been hunting around for videos like that and they are few and far between! Most other channels will say they're using 12 pencils, but then they use 12 obscure pencils from their set of 150. See, I'm on a two-week small-set challenge. So yesterday I gave up on tutorials and just decided to DIY. I've got to say I'm really proud of myself! I coaxed all kinds of muted, realistic colors out of my $3 "kids" set of 12 from Walmart. Give small set art a try, folks! (If anyone is curious, the pencils I found are Staedtler Design Journey. They remind me of Goldfabers/Polychromos. They're fantastic for the price!)
This is so inspiring~ I hope the journey goes well!
It's coming along pretty well. Learning all sorts of things about colored pencils, layering, and different kinds of paper. I suggest you try it!
The fact I also only ever do my coloring with a 12 Color set (the fibercastle "kids" set) and while I have learned a little bit on mixing colors with just the 12 (some examples are on my channel over here if I wanna see how I did but please don't scroll down for God sake it awful down there😅😭) but this video definitely helped a lot (also if y'all have any suggestions for good drawing paper please let me know my art book can NOT take it anymore 😭😂
The best tutorial on color creation for art in any video I have seen. These principles can be applied across the board for many medium! Great work!
This has been the best color theory instruction I’ve ever seen or read. I have adhd. It’s hard for me to keep focused when people over explain things. You did perfect! Kept my attention entirely and I’ve retained the information. Thank you!
Wow, I have been doing these exercises since I started color pencil 13 years ago! These are really helpful! The only suggestion I make is for the color wheel, try to use only five pencils: white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow. The primary colors on this color wheel weren't the best for mixing, especially that warm red. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
I am not an artist… well not a schooled or educated artist. I never went to school. I’ve never been to a class of any kind. But over the last couple years I started painting and drawing. I just felt the need to do so. I love it. I’m not bad but there are times I don’t know how to achieve on canvas or paper what I see in my minds eye. This has been so incredibly helpful. I’ve watched other videos but they were so confusing. This was simplistic and easy to understand. Thank you soooo much. Sincerely. Thank you. Stay well. Stay safe.
I did have trouble with colour mixing because every tutorial I saw would use many different colours so it was really confusing , but now I get it , playing with colours does give you knowledge and fun 😊 I really missed you Kirsty tbh
It's amazing how you can create so many different versions of the same colour!
I agree with the comments below: this has to be the best Practical colored pencil/color theory video I've watched. I feel smarter after watching it! Thanks for sharing.
Of the videos I have watched explaining this, yours is the best. You broke it down and explained every part in a way a person can understand. Thank you. I hope you have a video combining all those colors to create the picture.
Great exercise. I’ve been doing these type of exercises for years. I would recommend trying the same thing with a mid yellow, cyan and magenta, brighter mixes. Also, try doing a split primary colour wheel, that is a warm and cool version of each primary. So much fun learning how colours mix. I do heaps of different colour wheels with different sets of three starting colours..
Oh, so animal colors, do various types of browns, reds, oranges, yellows and creams...and blues, greens, and purples as complements. For landscapes, various greens, yellow, and browns, with blues and purples to mute them...
Thank you, this is exactly what I needed! I really appreciate all the time and effort you’ve put into creating this template. Than you so much.
Brilliant and easy to understand. One of the best videos of any topic I've seen on KZhead. Thank you
This is the most sensible explanation of color I have ever heard. Thank you!
As someone who uses watercolors, it’s always interesting to see what people have to do with other mediums. I also find that even with watercolors, people still struggle with mixing colors and understanding color theory because of having premade colors in their palette. I learned some basic theory on my own from just using the Daniel smith essentials set of colors! It was a palette of 6 colors, 2 kinds of primaries, cool and warm tone
You cropped up in my recommendations again after years, and I'm SO glad you did! I forgot how incredibly jaw-dropping your art is. It's better than anything I could have imagined. Also, you're the person who taught me to draw, and I've sold three pieces now. Thank you!
This tutorial was GREATLY HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you for taking this valuable time to show the importance of creating varied colors, shades, or shadows. I plan to print out the guide you put together. Once again, thank you💜
Thank you for a very nice discussion of color mixing. I'm familiar with color mixing in other mediums but haven't yet worked much with colored pencils. The idea of choosing which color to put in a sandwich layer (beyond just layering colors) was something I hadn't considered - it makes a lot of sense when considering how the color shows up through underlying layers and reflects off upper layers. 🙂
So happy you liked the video. Yeah I thought it was important to touch on the way I layer the colours, as well as which colours to layer as I know figuring out which order to layer colours in can be tricky 💕
Kirsty, Thank you for producing this tutorial! It is an excellent companion to the "Picking Perfect Colours" guide that I had previously downloaded from your website. That guide was informative for me last summer, when I was creating a personalized colored pencil drawing for my brother's graduation gift. 😊 But it is an even further blessing to have this video, in which you walk us through some of those same concepts in a thorough, conversational manner. I think these resources complement each other so nicely - since I love having things written down for reference (like the downloadable guide), yet I also benefit from having someone there to walk me through the process (like you do in this video). I appreciate that you have made both of these available! (Side note: When I clicked on this video, I wasn't expecting it to be such a thorough tutorial. To me, it seems like this video should be subtitled something like, "Color Theory Basics in Practice." 🤷🏼♀️) Thanks again! ~ Chelsea P.S. I hope this verse encourages you today: 😊 "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
This info is VERY helpful. I will be coloring the worksheet you gave us ALOT. Thank you!
Great tutorial as always Kristy! I love this type of exercises.
I recently started drawing using coloured pencils inspired by you... Beforethat I used to draw water colours... But after seeing some tutorial vedios my skills had improved a lot... Everybody appreciates my drawings now... Thanks a lot mam🙏🙏🙏
This was THE most helpful color wheel explaination I've ever seen. Thanks so much!
This is the best color theory video I’ve seen. It makes so much more sense to me now. Thank you so much!
This is one of the greatest tips you have given me. Thank you so much. Ive been out of drawing for three years due to illness ect but now im looking forward to starting up again using this tip. TY so much again
This is may be the best explanation of the why and how of color theory I've seen on KZhead. . . and I have been looking.
Best color, explanation, video, exercise I have ever seen. This is a life-changing video for me. Thank you so much.
Thank you. I started 8 weeks ago with color pencils, and the drawing always looked different than I imagined and wanted, and also changed the look/color over time. After watching this video and understanding the color wheel, me next drawing came out exactly as I wanted / expected. All in all, this was full of great advice.
This is so wonderfully helpful. I can not thank you enough ❤
Well, what to say.... I digitize designs to make machine-embroidery and there is a great need for a good understanding of colour-theory, something I'm increasingly appreciating the more I learn about embroidery with threads. The same concepts are useful - namely blending layers of thread and shading with layers of thread. It certainly seems to be a fact that the colour-pencil methods are the best I've seen that may be compared to the world of thread-colour use. This is an EXCELLENT video and you've done yourself a LOT of credit making such a clearly-demonstrated, perfectly-paced and USEFUL video. Many thanks for this video, it is a real spark of light in the difficult area of embroidery-thread colour choice and use!
Wow. This is fantastic! Thank you for creating and sharing.
Thank you for this Kirsty. I've been learning to use coloured pencils for realistic colouring, and have just started posting a few videos of my efforts. It's an old adage that less is more, but I think you clearly show that in many cases, using less, but using them well gets results. I will be using your worksheet to help me on my next set of images.
Amazing! Looking at the colorwheel this way, with the worksheet makes it clearer. I also appreciate the freebies. Going to subscribe to your channel
I must say that your presentation brings even more clarity with color theory 4 me. Thank you ever so. It is your presentation. Very giving. Very gently. And a whole lot of patience. Best day now.
That was a very good exercise and thanks for the worksheet - big help!
THIS. VIDEO. Oh my gosh!!!! I am so fortunate to find you!!! I have learned SO much. Not only about colors; the layering technique. Can’t wait to download the work sheet. Watching from the Great Northwest of the U.S.❤
Thank you Kirsty you made it very easy to understand I have struggled with color and certainly mixing. Light bulb went off with this lesson. THANK YOU
The BEST color theory video 💯 it finally makes sense to me , thank u !!
Wow this just blew my mind thank you for sharing!!
Such a helpful and inspiring video lesson, packed with tips and ideas, thanks a lot, Kirsty!
This has been the most beneficial and informative art skills video I’ve ever watched! Thank you!!❤
Wow - what a great presentation. So helpful. And your Worksheet is GREAT! Thank you!
Wow! You really did a great job teaching this! Thank you so much for sharing. 💖
Years ago I read a book called The Paradox of Choice. It’s about how having an abundance of options ironically limits us. They referenced a study where a vendor at a food market had 24 different types of gourmet jam for customers to sample, and they offered a coupon to everyone who tried the jam. The catch was, they could only choose one flavour to buy. On another day, they repeated the experiment with just 6 varieties of jam. They found that even though the larger display attracted more customers, those who tried samples on the second day were more likely to purchase a jar of jam. This was thought to be because on the first day, there were too many options and customers got overwhelmed. They found themselves deliberating over which flavour tasted the best, which one had the highest quality ingredients etc, then many gave up and walked away without purchasing anything. When the sample size was limited, customers were more certain about what they wanted as they had fewer options to choose from. I think the same theory applies to your coloured pencils. When we have too many choices, we can limit ourselves. It’s best to stick to the necessities when possible. Your artwork is beautiful by the way!
Lol, I once saw an old lady in a shop that had a wide choice of sandwiches on the shelves. She looked around for a few mins at the huge array of choice, and then got fed up and walked out. Too much choice is overwhelming.
This is wonderful and applies to most mediums! I'm definitely using this with all of my students, thank you so much!
What a good teacher you are. This was great.
Wow! I've seen a lot of these color things before, but seeing this all together just felt so revolutionary! Thank you! Going to try this tomorrow with my watercolors. This really works for any medium!
This is awesome.. looking forward to doing the sheet, thank you!
Thank you for this color work sheet. Excellent tutorials.
This was such a clear explanation of how to make the colours. Thank you!!
Brilliant , simple but so easy to follow. I will be applying it to my paints as well. Thanks for sharing this great technique.
Brilliant! I just came upon your video and learned things I don’t ever remember being taught in art class at school a hundred years ago … thank you!
I see you are using FC Polychromos. I just bought a dozen Polys of my favourite earthy colours to try out these "hard" pencils after seeing someone use them in layers. Coming from a Prismacolour background I favoured the "buttery" type but was intrigued at how well the Polys laid down pigment with the lightest touch. Once I got them, I was blown away by them and am a new convert. So I was contemplating what other colours to get and considered basic colours for mixing, and here you pop up with this great tutorial and template. Thanks! I will still get a few more "ready"colours for the ones I would use a lot, but it's good to have options for mixing the in-betweens without wasting money on sets with dozens of bright colours I would never use.
This is gorgeous and awesome! Color theory actually made sense to me 🤩 thank you
Thanks Kirsty! looks like a fun, interesting exercise!
Thank you so so much, i just today purchased I THINK all the sketching tools I need.. all but the wisdom and knowledge which often CANT be bought. I appreciate your free assistance, the color wheel sheet will truly start me out on a great creation
WOW...that's pretty amazing! thank you for sharing.
Such an amazing lesson! Thank You SO much!! Really giving me skills to create, layer & blend!! YOU ROCK!! You are an extraordinary teacher! Your wonderful free gift is on it's way to help me grow in being a colorist!!
So happy to hear you loved the lesson and worksheet 💕
@@KirstyPartridgeArt Yes I did & I have a new friend who wants to advance her colorist skills & she loved it too. We tried to do the 1st exercise but seemed unable with wax based pencils to achieve purple... What were we doing wrong? The orange & green did alright but not purple; we even switched up the blue a couple times... No go on purple. Do oil base pencils work better across the board? Surely wax pencils will work the same? I was using prisma colors. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am a complete amateur but I’ll give you my thoughts. It depends on which blue and which red you use. For purple you need to use a warm blue and a warm red. In particular, if you are trying to make purple with an orange red you will never achieve the colour you want. However, if you use your orange red with yellow you will get a good orange but if you used the blue red your orange wouldn’t be what you wanted. I find mixing easier to use 6 pencils - a warm and a cool version of each blue, red and yellow. Plus as Kirstie said a white and a black. Hope I haven’t confused you further but hopefully Kirstie will see this and put it right if I’ve explained it badly!
One of the best videos ever about colors
Brilliant information, Miss Kirsty, thank you for sharing
This was so incredibly helpful!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
This is a masterclass, thank you.
You did a great video! In combination with my experience at digital drawing and using the color tools, I can finally apply this to analog drawing. Thank you
Just downloaded your coloured pencil worksheet. It's a game changer! Really made me think how to use different combinations of colours to achieve the look I want. I've recently started a botanical drawing course and the ultimate goal of this course is to use watercolour. I've never mastered watercolour so, for the time being, I'm sticking to my pencils! Thanks again for all your advice - really appreciated. Ann Australia
Thank you for making this video!
Wow. Just wow. I have always understood the color wheel (I thought) but the way you explained everything makes me realize I didn’t really get it. This is so incredibly helpful. Hopefully this will help me with picking colors which is my biggest struggle. Thank you!
cute worksheet❤ Thank you!
Thank you for such a great informative video. It really helped.
Wow this is GOLD. Thank you!!!!
Wouah, thank you si much sharing us those techniques, it is very useful.😊🌹
Thank you so much for this video and walkthrough. I am a self-taught hack and your video helped me out a lot with understanding color principles. I can’t wait to dive into the exercises! Thank you for your channel and your time!!
This is really helpful. Thank you!
Wow, great tutorial, you have explained the mysteries of colours in a way I can understand, the worksheet really gave me the ‘eureka’ moment I’d been looking for. Thank you so much
I am learning and have watched so many videos trying to learn color. This video finally made sense to me, I get it now!!!!! Thank you!!!!! This has helped soooooo much!
Wonderful instruction! Thank you for the coloring worksheet.
You are so welcome! 💕
You are such an amazing artist and art teacher! I always learn so much from you
This is a brilliant video, I do struggle thank you. 🌟💜🍒
Thank you! This information is so very helpful.
This video is crazy, it covers just A LOT of color theory applied to colored pencils… 🙀 Since you were using the amazing Polychromos here, one advanced technique that I enjoy using with them to lighten my color is applying my eraser to it! Depending on the paper etc this can lighten the color while still retaining the coverage obtained with lots of layers - super cool. I find it most useful for adding small highlights though, especially with a tiny Tombow Mono Zero eraser! 😺
Thankyou, Kirsty. That was very helpful. I finally understand the colour wheel. I have downloaded the worksheet and will give this a go. Veronica 😊
This is so interesting and informative! I'm working on a colored pencil work right now, and recently we did a color wheel just like this with acrylic paints in my art group, so it's wonderful to have an equal demo in colored pencil. Thanks so much!
Thank you for this. Very informative for we who have struggled with our colored pencil work.
Incredible!! Very helpful!!! Thank you so much!!!!
What a wonderful explainer. Thankyou
Thank you! This is an excellent video and helps clarify things for me.
This is exactly what I have been looking for.
Wow ...this was so helpful ❤ loved it ...what a game changer...thanks so much 😊
This was incredibly helpful. I have such a hard time with colored pencils due to blending methods and finding the right color with what I have. It seems like something I should have known all these years but it just never would click in my head for color pencils. I also thing the quality of paper makes a huge difference for color this many layers, along with a really good white color pencil. It is possible with cheaper pencils but a little ,ore patience and technique is involved. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Very good video on color. Blending colored pencils is hard compared to mixing paint, but a rule of thumb in pencils is to sharpen pencil as fine as possible in first layers and put down lightest colors first
Amazing video to understand the basis.Love it. Thank you
After 4 months you are back 😀 always love to watch your videos 😊
I love colour theory, thanks for this.