Comment on Art Tutorial: Color Theory by Xadrea
Curiously you picture is what I used to think.
The primary colours in paint are red, yellow and blue. If you mix yellow and blue you get green.
Then in a physics lesson I was told that
the three primary colours with light are are red, green and blue.
If you ADD red and green you get yellow.
Not sure how a digital art painting programme would work if you mix red and green.
Would you get yellow or brown?
The primary colours in paint are red, yellow and blue. If you mix yellow and blue you get green.
Then in a physics lesson I was told that
the three primary colours with light are are red, green and blue.
If you ADD red and green you get yellow.
Not sure how a digital art painting programme would work if you mix red and green.
Would you get yellow or brown?
The physics of color are completely different from artistic conventions and pigment mixing. For example, why would it make any sense to put purple "next to" red on the color wheel when they are on the furthest wavelengths of the range of our sight? Only because blue pigment and red pigment happen to produce purple. 
It's really confusing. Complimentary colors are the same: we just "happen" to think they look good together. Though it may be similar to music chords in the sense that their proportional wavelength difference might be similar . . .? It's really confusing, anyway. How do you get purple and orange in physics, by the way?
I think digital art programs are built to "act" the similar to paint, not actual light. A quick experiment on Gimp yeilded brown from red and green, though I had to lower the green's opacity more than red. (They most certainly did NOT make yellow. XDDD) When I tried yellow and blue they didn't really blend, just overpowered each other.
It's really confusing. Complimentary colors are the same: we just "happen" to think they look good together. Though it may be similar to music chords in the sense that their proportional wavelength difference might be similar . . .? It's really confusing, anyway. How do you get purple and orange in physics, by the way? I think digital art programs are built to "act" the similar to paint, not actual light. A quick experiment on Gimp yeilded brown from red and green, though I had to lower the green's opacity more than red. (They most certainly did NOT make yellow. XDDD) When I tried yellow and blue they didn't really blend, just overpowered each other.
yes yes, that's perfectly true as well, but I'm being practical as in mixing paint, crayons, colored pencils ect...the basics lol
computer color is cmyk (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) so im not sure about that lol
computer color is cmyk (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) so im not sure about that lol