Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

The inaccuracies of the color wheel

A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist

98% positive reviews (149)

2,821 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: The inaccuracies of the color wheel

Overview

“The world of color is extremely fascinating. I will talk about the color wheel as a tool to create color palettes and the drawbacks that are found in its traditional use. ”

In this video lesson Jazmin Varela addresses the topic: The inaccuracies of the color wheel, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe. Create your own library of color palettes to apply to your illustrations using mixed techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Inaccuracies in the Color Wheel In this lesson, we'll talk about the color wheel and some problems I encounter when using it as a tool. Let's get started. THE COLOR WHEEL The color wheel is used to organize colors according to their hue or shade. It's very useful for understanding how some colors are created and for making harmonies, complementary colors, triads, harmonies with adjacent colors, etc. In other words, it's used to create harmonious palettes based on formulas. However, the color wheel has some issues and inaccuracies that limit us when defining our palettes. This tool is a very...”

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Course summary for: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (149)
2821 students
4 units
13 lessons (2h 10m)
8 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Color Theory, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration

Jazmin Varela

A course by Jazmin Varela

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Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist

Jazmín Varela is an illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist. She has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2010 and works on personal projects for exhibitions in parallel. In 2018, she also started to tattoo in her own studio.

Some of her published works include Crisis capila (Editorial Municipal de Rosario 2016), Guerra de soda (Maten al Mensajero, 2017), Tengo unas flores con tu nombre (Maten al Mensajero, 2018), and Cotillón (Maten al Mensajero y Sigilo España, 2020). She is an integral part of the Cuadrilla Feminista, a graphic artist collective from Rosario, and cofounder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo.