Hey everyone, it's update time again.

Yesterday I mentioned that I thought I'd be putting all of the tertiary colors in one update, that way I could get them all taken care of at once, that's not going to happen though. I failed to remember, which is part of the reason I'm doing this, that for each of the secondary colors there are two tertiary colors! Whoops. That means the next couple of posts will be including two colors each, so let's get down to it then!

Since yesterday's post was purple, here are the two tertiary colors on either side of it!

Blue Purple 

Red Purple

There you have it! Two down, four more to go. Check back tomorrow for more!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

Here's the last of the secondary colors.

It's purple! A good purple too, not quite a "Purple Rain (HEX: 4B308D)," but a good purple. 

That's all for the secondary colors. I think tomorrow's update is gonna include all of the tertiary colors in one post, that way I can get 'em all taken care of in a week.

Check back to see how those turn out!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

Here's the second of the secondary colors.

Orange you glad you checked this post out? I am so sorry. Reprehensible jokes aside, I feel like this is the best one yet! I will fully admit to using the marquee tool in Photoshop to create a perfect circle, I feel like that really pushed the sphere in the right direction. I can draw an almost perfect circle on paper, but using a tablet to create one is an entirely different story. I don't think there's a tablet experience yet (excluding the Wacom Cintiq's - but I don't really know 'cause I've never used one) that truly replicate what it's like to draw by hand. That's why the circular marquee tool was that sphere's saving grace.

Well, that's all for this post. Check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update.

Today's post marks the start of the secondary colors, and here's the first one.

It's green! I think these shapes are looking better and better each time, I'm still a bit miffed looking at the sphere, but I know I'm gonna have that down by the end of this week.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow to see which color will be next!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

So since there are only three primary colors, and I've already done two of them, there's only one left. Yellow! Here's how it turned out.

I like it! I think this is the best one yet. I'm really having trouble with the sphere, though it looks better here than in the last two. I'm trying to show it being illuminated by all three of the light sources in the image, and it's altering the core shadow of the form so much that it almost doesn't look round anymore. I'm gonna need to keep working on that. I also took out the sketchy lines around the forms, because they really weren't anything other than a stylistic choice that wasn't working, so out they went! Since I did that with this piece, I thought I'd post the other two without those lines as well, have a look.

Here's blue.

Here's red.

So, there you have it! Red, blue, and yellow. That's all for the primary colors. Next up, the secondary colors! Check back tomorrow to see which one I'll paint first!

Hey everyone, here is today's update!

The color of the day today is blue!

Just for the sake of clarity, every new color is repainted in each shape every day. I'm not just making adjustments in Photoshop! I want to render the light on the objects each time, that way I'm improving my ability to describe those shapes. I think tomorrow I'm going to leave those sketch-lines off though, they kind of take away from viewing the color on the forms I think.

That's all for today, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's the first post of a new month so that means it's time for a new theme.

The last two months were mostly black and white, and while that makes for quick work for me, it's not so interesting for everyone viewing this blog. That's why this month is going to be all about color! For the first week I'll be doing some studies using the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. After that I'll be doing some drawings using complimentary color, and analogs color schemes.

It's all gonna be a little basic, and it might look a bit amateur, but this sort of thing is super important if you want to develop as an artist. I've always been bad at practicing the basics, and I think that has hindered me for too long, so I'm putting this stuff out there for the world to see. Guess the pressure's on me to do well, here goes!

Each day this week I'll be coloring in the following template I made, and using light sources within it to illuminate these shapes which will be rendered in different colors.

Now that you've seen that, here's what I did today!

Today's color was, as I'm sure you can probably tell, red! I tried to render a nice range of values within the shapes, and stayed true to my (limited) knowledge of lighting to make them look somewhat realistic. After all, color is reflected light, in its absence you wouldn't be able to see anything at all! For the sake of keeping things simple, the color of light (because that matters too) in these images will always be white, I'm gonna save that whole 'mixing hues' thing for later.

That's all for today, thanks for stopping by. I wonder what color I'll pick tomorrow? There are only two primary colors left, so you've got a 50/50 chance of guessing and being right! Check back to find out if you were!