Exercises are back!

We are getting back into the swing of providing Exercises every 2 weeks to continue pushing you to challenge your skills and grow as an artist. So enough talking let's jump into this exercise!

Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE.

Artist: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)

This exercise is best completed after watching the Color Shifting Using HSB tutorial included in the Color Course.

When working with choosing colors for your subject matter, its good to understand that its natural to first assume using black and white for the shadows and highlights. You may notice that the end result can often look rather dull and uninteresting. This exercise asks you to bend your highlight colors toward a warm hue and your shadow colors toward a cooler hue. This will give your subject matter more depth and interest. So start with your diffuse color (hue identity) and then mix that color with a warm and cool color to create a new color palette that has a wider variety of hue and saturation shifting rather than just brightness shifting.

 TIPS

• Try not to overdo the mixing of warm and cool colors, having that subtle effect and transition can be all you need to create the feeling.
• Avoid Black and White all together for this exercise.
• Keep a basic lighting setup, nothing too dramatic. We want to focus on the color shifting, not on the extreme lighting.
• Have fun with the color play, if you want you can even take it a step further into a Fantastical Intuition color selection.

This is a crucial type of exercise to understand how shifting colors and experimenting with them can create a more interesting outcome. So have fun mixing new colors and seeing how laying them down creates a different feeling when looking at it.

http://cgcookie.deviantart.com/art/Exercise-41-Practice-Sheet-Color-Shifting-573229761