12-29-2016, 04:58 AM
I really recommend Mike Azevedo's gumroad video on how color works: https://gumroad.com/mikeazevedo#
Also the book Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis has a great section on color.
Basically, if you have a warm light, you will have cooler shadows in comparison, and vice versa (in most situations). So if you have a warm orange sphere, that doesn't mean that you want to use a pure blue in the shadows, but rather that you'll want to make the orange cooler in the shadows (usually by desaturating it and shifting it toward the cooler colors slightly you'll see a difference, but it all depends on the bounce light etc.)
So the thing to do is to learn this color and light stuff and then do these studies and you'll gradually start to see color more clearly.
Hope that helps!
Also the book Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis has a great section on color.
Basically, if you have a warm light, you will have cooler shadows in comparison, and vice versa (in most situations). So if you have a warm orange sphere, that doesn't mean that you want to use a pure blue in the shadows, but rather that you'll want to make the orange cooler in the shadows (usually by desaturating it and shifting it toward the cooler colors slightly you'll see a difference, but it all depends on the bounce light etc.)
So the thing to do is to learn this color and light stuff and then do these studies and you'll gradually start to see color more clearly.
Hope that helps!