You've Been Lied To – Color Theory Made Easy

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1. Your videos have inspired me. I've been painting and making art for years but wanted to learn more. After watching your videos I realized how little I actually knew about painting, I just did it. I've learned so much from these videos. I cant wait to watch and learn more.

2. 3:21 The blue contains violet and the cyan contains green, thus, violet disrupts the green and makes it muddy and cyan contains green, making the color more vibrant

3. But markers and paint are two different mediums and work two different ways. There for you can't use something that works for ink and say it works for paint, your misleading people because fell for a hyped up lie. And tbh i trust the thousands of classical painters then a group of people on youtube imo.

4. The "cyan" color comes from the chemical: Copper Phthalocyanine. In paint, this is blue (Phthalo Blue) in the RYB color scheme. People mistakenly use Ultramarine as a primary blue.
   https://youtu.be/ic9YXDhjedQ

5. I remember when I was introduced to magenta. Oh boy. Best oranges and purples I had ever mixed in my life. It was my favorite color for ages just because of how it changed my color mixing game. I guess I never felt the need for cyan because it's in most palettes as "sky blue", but magenta was totally absent from all school supplies and my poor mom had to go out of her way to get me all my magenta art supplies for school. When I was finally taught proper color theory I felt my magenta "cheat" finally made sense. Now I just don't get why do we still teach Red-Yellow-Blue instead of Cyan-Magenta-Yellow. It makes colors so confusing and unenjoyable for so many people.

6. Woof thought it was
   Yellow-green violet pink
   Guess it's gray hahahah

7. KA-BOOOM! …that was the sound of my mind being blown.

8. Grim you're the best,💯. Love from philly bro

9. Oh word

10. The hardest part about using CYM as your primaries is that it's usually a little more difficult to find those, where Red, Yellow, and Blue fill up every primaries kit ever. Not impossible, and I love mixing CYM more than anything, but something to keep in mind if you look around in an art store.

    Also, sometimes it can be difficult to mix a good orange from CYM, so I like to add that and a brown onto my set of standard colours along with CYM, but that's more personal preference than anything 😀

11. u r literally my biggest art inspiration <4

12. This video shocked me, I can t believe that red blue and yellow aren't primary colours

13. This video shocked me, I can t believe that red blue and yellow aren't primary colours

14. Always bringing new value to the series.
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15. For anyone thinking of a career in graphic design as well this is great advice. RGB (Red Green Blue) are what you use for creating digital images / anything seen on screen. CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) are what you use for print.

16. When I was younger I told my art teacher in school that I heard Cyan, Yellow and Magenta were the true primary colors

    She said that it isn't true and I shut up 😂😂

17. good shit

18. Yea i kinda knew this before a friend of mine told me but you did wayyy better job in exploring this thanks alot man

19. Aw shit gotta buy new paint

20. More on colors, please!

21. The first time I learned about this my mind was blown!

22. you explained this better than my physics class

23. awesome video important topic whenever i tell someone this theyre always surprised, even some writers who have been at it for a while lol

24. Cmyk?

25. At my school they said it is magenta but for the blue well it’s still dark blue

26. 🤯

27. Additive colours have different primary colours, they start with darker colour and when they combine or “add” together, there is more light coming through and they produce different colours, and instead of mixing secondary to get tertiary and so on, they adjust the amount of light released from each primary colour, they use rgb and to get black, there is no colour and to get white the values for red, green and blue are all set to 255, and if you decrease them you start to get grey, to get a desaturated colour, you need to get the desired hue, then figure out how to get the opposite of that colour, then increase those values until you get the desired colour

28. Again nobody was texting you 🙁

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