My follow-up to the last one for Wacom. Covers how digital art’s primary colors are different from traditional’s, the hue-saturation-value system of color management, how the color pickers in image editing programs work, how to “key” your images for maximum cohesion, and some tips on creating color harmony.
Since most webcomics are made digitally, I hope this helps you.
Published on the same day as the last, but I’m setting this to post a week from now to give you the illusion of more updates.
Sometimes I write for Wacom now. This article is my best stab at a practical introduction to color theory: Not a list of the different types of color schemes like many other articles I’ve seen on it, but an introduction to light, mixing, and the properties behind them.
Please don’t take my extended absence personally: I barely wrote anything in 2017. Let’s change that this year.
(2019 Edit: So much for that.)
But this post, as the title says, wasn’t planned. It started out as an answer to a Reddit post asking what you should study if you want to go pro, but as I kept writing, I realized it was turning into a blog post.
So here you go: a list, from memory, of what I think an artist with ambition should be reading up on.
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