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The Getting Started Series is Finally Here! Check out the full course and handouts here: cgcookie.com/concept/cgc-cours…Related content
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Anybody here keep notes of these or am I the only one that gives myself homework? :-D
Btw, thanks cookie!!
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Keeping notes and giving yourself homework is an extremely important thing to do as an artist and a great way to improve yourself in any profession! I highly suggest keeping up that work ethic and you will see improvement in no time! Thank you for your support! - Joe
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No problem! Yeah I always thought of myself of a weirdo for doing that like I was in highschool or college. I'm not, but that doesn't mean I can't study about things I want to study, hell I know languages a little bit because of that! And other things about life people tend not to know about lol , and I give myself math lessons....all as if I'm still in school.
I would like to go to college, but I cannot, due to lack of money, and other issues, so I give myself "home schooling". I'm always learning and I'm always on the go weather it's about art or other educational things.
Usually, I spend a lot of my time researching about the human body while learning to draw and learning about color theory, painting, and other foundations of art at home!
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Actually, Primary Colours are: yellow, cyan, and magenta.
Red is a mixture of yellow and magenta.
Blue is a mixture of cyan and magenta.
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This may be useful -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_…
tl;dr version is that there are different primary sets for different occasions.
The subtractive set isn't the best for what this guide is teaching, but it works for work such as printing. ^ ^
ouo / i didn't see any replies for this comment so here.
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We keep what we're taught in school, I guess.
To me, red, green, and blue, will always be the secondary colours (because that's what they are, really).
It's fine if you work better with the RGB or RYB colour palette but you should still refer to them as secondary colours and not primary. It doesn't take long to say they are secondary so...
I apologise if I sound a bit defensive 
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So I did some research. Yes, this is 6 months later, but I really feel the need to clear this up.
"Red, green, and blue are the primary colors of light—they can be combined in different proportions to make all other colors. This additive color system is used by light sources, such as televisions and computer monitors."
"However, there is another set of primary colors with which you may be more familiar. The primary colors of pigment (also known as subtractive primaries) are used when producing colors from reflected light; for example, when mixing paint or using a color printer. The primary colors of pigment are magenta, yellow, and cyan (commonly simplified as red, yellow, and blue)."
TVs and computers have different primary colors because light colors are perceived differently than pigment colors. Usually magenta, yellow, and cyan are the terms being used when referring to color printers. For the sake of art, which was this tutorial's purpose, the primary colors are in fact red, yellow, and blue.
Otherwise, are you willing to tell me that all the primary school teachers and art teachers in the world are wrong, and you are right?
My deepest apologies for making such a fuss. Thank you to ConceptCookie for the wonderful tutorials!<3
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No, I am telling you that where I live, if you ever told someone the primary colours are red, yellow, and blue you'd be given an pitiful look and be properly instructed on the matter.
My art teacher taught me, from the very first day, that primary colours are those which cannot be mixed and he was not wrong. Try painting something with the ACTUAL primary colour wheel in mind and you will end up with a result far more pleasant to the eye.
The problem with painting with secondary colours is that, if you're not careful and use a lot of layers (because let us be honest - you cannot apply that colour wheel above in traditional art and expect good results), the painting will probably turn out muddy. That is never good.
It is fine if you want to pain with secondary colours - my god, paint with tertiary colours! - just don't call the primary colours.
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I'm just letting you know that, in general, the primary colors of art are red, yellow, and blue.
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And I am telling you that blue and red are not primary colours, regardless of what you use them for.
Like I said, I guess people tend to stick with what they are taught. We have been taught differently.
(but really, try painting something by mixing magenta, cyan, and yellow - just once - you are going to like the results
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"Magenta is a violet-red or purplish-red color, and one of the three primary colors of the subtractiveCMYK color model ."
If you're talking about using the subtractive method, then no, blue and red are not primary colors. But since when does digital painting use the subtractive method?
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(Late response) Actually I think you're the one that doesn't understand. There are TWO sets of primary colours - the main ones are red, blue, and yellow. These are the one's that most people know. The ones that you're talking about are when colour is used as light, rather than physical paint. Usually in art these aren't considered the primary colours so please stop telling other people that they're wrong! Both are technically correct.
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Hmm... that reply did not go as well as you expected, did it?
RGB = Additive Primary colours
THESE ARE THE COLOURS OF LIGHT
CMYK = Subtractice Primary colours
THESE ARE THE COLOURS YOU USE TO MIX PAINT
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't paint with light. If you do then the RGB model is yours to take but in this case you are wrong.
And no, both colour schemes are not correct, one of them is. For art it's the CMYK colour wheel. I don't care how much you whine about it. Educate yourself and then we'll talk.
I can mix red, green, and blue with the CMYK scheme. What can you mix with RGB? A pool of mud.
Oh, and by the way, next time you print something, replace your CMYK ink cartridges by RGB and white ones. Tell me how it went.
This is my last comment on the matter of Primary colours.
I'm sorry your art professors were idiots and taught you wrong - there's nothing I can do about it. Don't feel bad for learning new things or discovering that what you were taught is not as accurate as you were lead to believe.
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Um... I think my reply was fine since it's true. From Wikipedia: "For additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in CRT displays, the primary colors normally used are red , green , and blue . For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes such as in printing, the primaries normally used are magenta , yellow , and cyan ,[1] though the set of red, yellow, and blue is popular among artists."
Looks like BOTH are considered primary colours, and the last sentence clearly says that red, yellow, and blue are most common with artists. I don't see why you're getting so defensive. You were taught one set of primary colours, and I was taught another, why can't you just accept that both are correct?
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Because only one is correct, not both.
And that is all, if you don't mind.
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Listen girl, you're being stubborn as a mule and has it straight.
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Thanks ArmswieldTheHero
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I'm just being real bro.
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My DeviantArt icon is my face when I read your comments
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Why has nobody ever taught me hue shifting 
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It was something I learned outside of school and reallllly wished this was taught in school because of how important this is!
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Still a little confused how you pick colors for the hue shift but at least i can research this more
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This is really helpful 
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