🎨 EASY COLOR THEORY to color like a PRO (art tutorial - beginner)

Summary by Krater

An art instructor explains color theory basics and three color harmonies—monochromatic, complementary, and triads—demonstrating how to select and apply color palettes to character art.

From the video

Answers: How do I pick great colors for my art using color theory?

• color theory
• chromatic circle
• hue, value and saturation
• color temperature
• monochromatic color harmony
• complementary color harmony
• triad color harmony

What it concludes

• Warm colors like yellow and red tend to get our attention more easily than cool colors because of evolutionary associations with fire.
• A monochromatic color palette can look ugly if you are too strict with it, so varying the value and saturation of the hue helps get more colors.
• For monochromatic palettes, complementary palettes, and triads, the lead color should typically be the most vivid and saturated color, used on or around the focal point.
• When using a complementary color palette, the lead color should be used as the focal point while the secondary color is desaturated and used on visual elements far from the focal point.