Assignment - Color
Assignment - Color
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Digital Painting Fundamentals

Digital Painting Fundamentals(61 Lessons )

Assignment - Color

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Assignment - Color

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Part 1 - Monochromatic Paintings

  • Paint a sphere using a monochromatic palette
  • As a bonus, you can make a series of sphere paintings using different colors to explore different emotions and effects each create

Part 2 - Complementary Painting Studies

  • Select a painting you admire and create line work of the painting
  • Use that line work to repaint the artwork in 3 different color palettes (maintain the original lighting of the painting, altering only the color palette)
    1. Complementary palette
    2. Split complementary palette
    3. Double split complementary palette

Don't forget to post your completed studies along with the reference artworks.

You have until 10/21/24 to submit your art for possible inclusion in the critique video!

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1mo
Hello ! This was a fun but challenging assignement, I choose Anato Finnstark to study because of their incredibale control over color by useing these "basic" color combination! It was hard for me to stick with the concept of light being warm and shadows being cold (which in this case of split and double split study is more like cold light and warm shadows) I broke that "rule" many times for favor of how it felt at the time. PS: I've been watching your videos on youtube since 2016 learning from you and you've been a big inspiration for me ! Thank you for that and i'm glad you are a part of this course !
Kassjan Smyczek
Double Split complementary: The reference is from one of my favourite video games: Destiny 2. I love the art. It was fun to draw this from beginning to end. Maybe I shouldn‘t have taken a painting with so many details as reference because I saw myself switching between what I was supposed to do regarding the assignment and just copying the painting. The details only made me look at the reference and I had to remind myself to pick the colors myself and to deduct them from my palet and from the lighting. Anyway, I feel like I made a big step forward: here is a video of how I painted it: https://x.com/kassjans/status/1840100762048774567?s=46&t=4F3U_v-Q_DW4k4fz9Pqmtg
onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*
(1) Another warmup(monochromatic ball) (2) Complementary palette (3) Split complementary palette (4) Double split complementary palette (5) The reference I used was N.C. Wyeth's work, "Leaping from Rock to Rock in Sheer Delight" The Orangish yellow ball(1) looks tasty for some reason. I don't like how (2) and (3) turned out. Maybe my choice of colors wasn't good, I failed to handle texture brushes, or I focused on details too much and lost the balance of colors/light and shadow. I'll do those challenges again. The series was fun, and I feel what I learned in this course has already, and will improve my color skills significantly. Thank you, Marco! Previous post: https://www.proko.com/s/T4jP
Dave Sakamoto
Here's part 2 of the assignment.
Anthony Hernandez
For part 1 of the assignment I did the following (in upload order): 1. Red monochromatic sphere, I followed along with the monochromatic lesson step-by-step. 2. Green monochromatic sphere, I had the lesson playing in the background which I refered to if I wasn't sure what to do next. 3. Teal monochromatic sphere, I did this one from memory. For part 2 I used a painting of She-Hulk by Jeehyung Lee (https://www.artstation.com/jeehyunglee): 4. The reference art (has the Marvel / She-Hulk logo). 5. My line drawing. 6. Complementary Palette, using red and blue. 7. Split Complementary Palette, using orange for warm, blue and purple for the cool. 8. Double Split Complementary Palette, using green and orange for warm, purple and blue for cool. Note: I ignored the rim light that was in the reference. Thanks for the lessons Marco!
Dave Sakamoto
Hello! I've attached part 1 of the assignment. Part 2 is to come! When is the deadline exactly? I didn't see a due date.
Sean Ramsey
Ahh thanks, we'll add the due date to the post. For this course it's usually 3-4 weeks
Kassjan Smyczek
this is the split complementary Palet. I am almost happier with my pure complementary palet earlier. My value control was better I think. Still a fun exercise! I think I did better on the reflected light. Same reference as before.
Kassjan Smyczek
Here is the complementary palet. First picture is the original from a game called Destiny 2 Looking forward to do the split complementary!
Kassjan Smyczek
Challenge one: Monochromatic Ball in orange
Martha Muniz
Woah, I love the vibrancy and warmth of this! The only thing I would recommend is further developing the transition from light to shadow, as right now the division appears quite harsh. By just transitioning the light area a bit more towards gradual darkness before reaching the terminator, it can help communicate the round form of the sphere. I've attached the example from Marco's demo:
onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*
Part 1 0. The first challenge. I painted this after watching Monochromatic Palette Basics In July. 1. Cold green light with a warm gray shadow. It looks ghostly, magical, or ill. 2. Warm gray light with a cold blue shadow. I tried to make gray relatively warm but it doesn't look so, hmm. I feel this sphere is peaceful or logical. It's also more dramatic than the green one. I'll work on Part 2 tomorrow!
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