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Adding a complementary color to the paint

Adding a complementary color to the paint - ZBrush Tutorial

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Adding a complementary color to the paint

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- [Voiceover] Coming back to the concept art, I have a very warm tone of gray within the ring, and if I had to select another color, I'm probably looking at somewhat of a reddish brick color that is in some of the recessed areas, so I'm going to select a color that is a bit more in that family. We'll call it a rouge type color. And once again, now I want to lay in kind of a large swathe of color throughout. I also want to be careful though not to just paint this red all over everything. So I'm going to just gently, and I'm really, really working extremely light. Very light pressure on the tablet to bring in some of that color. And this is a really important step. One of the secrets to color theory, and this goes for just about any art that you may do, is that working with opposites will complement each other. So on the color wheel, this particular color red would basically be somewhere in the green family. And we are working with a metallic yellow to start with so we do somewhat have…

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