You should paint everything blue
Summary
TLDRIn this painting tutorial, the artist demonstrates how to create a realistic apple by layering various colors beyond just red. Starting with underpainting in blue for shadows, the artist adds yellow and orange streaks to highlight the apple's natural tones. The red is layered later, allowing other colors to shine through, giving depth and texture. This process helps create realistic lighting and vibrant contrasts, with particular attention to making the apple's shine crisp. By the end, the apple is rich with color, shadows, and highlights. Viewers are encouraged to engage and suggest future content.
Takeaways
- 🍎 Apples can be painted in various colors, not just red, to create a realistic appearance.
- 🎨 Underpainting with blue can help establish shadows and add depth to the apple's appearance.
- 🌟 Adding yellow streaks or dots first allows for highlights to shine through the red layers later.
- 🖌️ Painting with darker orange layers helps in creating the illusion of depth and texture on the apple.
- 💧 Underpainting provides an opportunity to create texture that will show through the final layers.
- 🟥 When painting red over blue, the mix creates a natural purple hue, enhancing the shadow areas.
- 🔴 Leaving areas of yellow and orange exposed in lighter areas helps to create a more natural look.
- 📏 Sharp lines between shadows and highlights are crucial for a realistic, shiny apple effect.
- 💧 Ensuring the paper is dry before painting highlights prevents bleed, maintaining a crisp shine.
- 🖍️ Adding saturated red to the apple increases color vibrancy and contrast between highlights and shadows.
- 🌈 Using a dry brush helps in controlling paint application, especially in highlighted areas to avoid blending.
Q & A
What is the primary color associated with apples in common perception?
-Red.
What technique does the artist use to start painting the apple?
-Underpainting.
Why does the artist choose to use blue for the underpainting of the apple's shadows?
-Using blue for underpainting allows the artist to create a cohesive piece when painting over it with red, and it also helps in creating shadows that appear more realistic.
What color does the artist use to represent the streaks of yellow and orange that shine through the apple's red color?
-Yellow.
How does underpainting help in creating texture on the apple?
-Underpainting allows the artist to create texture by making strokes, light lines, and dots that will shine through even after painting over them with red.
What color combination does the artist use to create a more realistic shadow effect?
-The artist uses a combination of blue and red to create a purple shadow effect, which adds to the realism of the painting.
Why does the artist leave areas of yellow and orange exposed when painting the red layer?
-Leaving areas of yellow and orange exposed helps to create a more natural and realistic image by allowing these colors to shine through the red layer.
How does the artist approach painting the highlighted areas of the apple?
-The artist ensures the paper is dry to maintain a crisp line for the highlight, which is important for creating a realistic shine on the apple.
What does the artist do to add saturation to the apple's red color in the painting?
-The artist goes over the apple with a more saturated red to increase the color intensity and create a more vibrant and contrasting effect with the highlights.
What is the artist's advice for painting into highlighted areas without blending too much?
-The artist suggests using a drier brush to control the paint better and to leave finer details in the highlighted areas.
What does the artist encourage viewers to do if they find the tutorial helpful or have suggestions for future content?
-The artist encourages viewers to leave a like, drop a comment, and share what they want the artist to paint next.
Outlines
🎨 Painting a Realistic Apple: Color Techniques
The video script explains the process of painting a realistic apple, emphasizing that the color is not just red but includes a variety of other colors. The artist begins with underpainting using blue in the shadow areas, which later enhances the cohesiveness when red is applied. Yellow is added for the streaks and spots that shine through the red, ensuring these details are captured before the final red layer. The artist also uses darker orange to represent the layers and levels of color in the apple. Underpainting allows for the creation of texture, which will show through the final red layer, adding to the realism. The script details how the artist applies red paint over the underpainting, creating a natural shadow effect by mixing with the blue. The artist then focuses on adding saturation and contrast to the apple, ensuring highlights are crisp for a realistic shine, and finishes by adding more saturated red to enhance the color and depth of the painting.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Underpainting
💡Cohesive
💡Yellow Streaks
💡Highlighting
💡Shadows
💡Texture
💡Saturation
💡Crisp Line
💡Layering
💡Realism
💡Brush Technique
Highlights
The color of an apple is not just red; other colors such as yellow, orange, and blue play a role in creating a realistic painting.
Underpainting with a blue color helps establish shadows, which provides depth and realism to the apple.
Using underpainting allows certain areas to shine through in the later stages of painting, adding cohesiveness to the artwork.
Yellow and orange streaks are used to represent areas where these colors naturally shine through the red skin of the apple.
By painting yellow first, the artist can leave exposed areas to let those yellow parts shine through once the red is added.
The technique of leaving areas unpainted allows highlights to be preserved, contributing to a more natural, realistic look.
Underpainting with various colors such as darker orange, blue, and yellow adds complexity and texture to the apple.
Adding light strokes, lines, and dots in the underpainting stage helps create texture and depth in the final painting.
When red is painted over the blue underpainting, it creates a purple hue, naturally forming shadows without needing to add darker reds.
The artist uses a scratchy technique with the red in well-lit areas to allow the yellow and orange underpainting to show through.
Layering more saturated red adds depth to the apple's shadows, making them more vibrant and contrasting with the highlights.
The area where the stem connects to the apple is a good opportunity to focus on color contrast and sharpness for realism.
To maintain crisp highlights, the paper must be dry to prevent the paint from bleeding into highlighted areas.
Apples have a shiny surface, so maintaining crisp lines for highlights makes the apple appear more realistic and vibrant.
A more saturated red is applied in the final layer, enhancing both midtones and shadows, while ensuring yellow and orange streaks remain visible.
Transcripts
what color is an apple
you'd probably say red and you wouldn't
be wrong necessarily
but there's a lot more that goes into it
there's a lot of other colors and in
this video you can follow side by side
while I paint a realistic Apple using a
lot of other colors besides just red to
start we can do something called under
painting and so in this example I'm
using a blue color to underpaint the
Apple where the Shadows are going to be
by using under painting when I go back
in with red at a later time it's going
to make the whole piece a little bit
more cohesive another thing that
underpainting allows you to do is to
create little areas that are going to
shine through once you put later layers
of paint down so in this example I'm
using a yellow because if you look at
the reference picture there's a lot of
streaks of yellow and orange that shine
through the red color of the Apple
I know that I'm going to paint a layer
of red over the top of this but if I do
that I won't be able to paint yellow
streaks or little yellow dots on top of
the Apple so I add the yellow first and
so then when I go back through with the
red I can leave areas exposed to let the
yellow Parts shine through
the same idea as leaving a highlight on
painted if you leave the yellow there
and then paint around it or leave areas
on painted when you go back in with red
or any other color you'll leave areas
that shine through and it'll create a
more natural and realistic image so here
even though I know I'm gonna end up with
red I'm also going through with a layer
of Darker orange because there's layers
and levels of different colors in here
it's not just yellow it's not just blue
there's a ton of different colors
presented here and I want to capture as
many of those as I can underpainting
also gives me an opportunity to create
some texture on the Apple so you see
I've made some Strokes some light lines
little dots everywhere all of that's
going to shine through even if I paint
red over top and so this is my
opportunity to add a little bit of
realism to the Apple
now I've got all of those layers painted
I am finally going to go in with my red
and you'll notice immediately that when
I paint the red over the blue areas it's
coming out a little bit purple which
makes sense blue and red would make
purple and this means that my Shadows
are already kind of sorted I don't have
to go through and darken it with a
different color of red or anything like
that I already have a sort of Base
Shadow going on that is giving some
realism to the piece you'll notice here
that when I go and paint the red in the
left side of the Apple because it's in
more light I'm being a little bit more
scratchy I'm leaving areas of yellow and
orange exposed because I want those
pieces to shine through this is just a
first layer so you'll notice that it's
probably a little less saturated than I
will want it to be at the end but it's
going in the general direction and it's
always easier to keep adding paint than
it is to remove it in this case I want
to start darkening up some of those
edges really make those Shadows really
contrast the highlights of the Apple so
I go in with more saturated red and I
layer it over top of the bottom right
side as well as adding it to some of the
mid-tones of the Apple the indent at the
top of the Apple where the stem is is
another good opportunity to think about
your colors and your highlights you'll
notice that it's a really sharp line
between the dark shadow or the stem
comes out of and the top of the Apple so
one thing while I'm doing that is I want
to make sure that the paper is dry so
that none of the paint bleeds into my
highlight the more crisp of a line that
I have there the more realistic that
shine is going to look apples are shiny
fruits so I want that highlight to be
crisp if it was not a shiny fruit if it
was more of a matte finish then maybe I
could blend some of it in together but
if I want it to be shiny I need the
Highlight to be crisp so at this point I
think I've got a pretty good base layer
of red over everything but it is a
little bit under saturated so what I'm
going to finally do is go in with a
pretty saturated red and add saturation
all over it I start with the middle
because I know it's going to be sort of
the mid-tones where most of the color is
going to pop I add some to the
highlighted areas still leaving those
yellow streaks and orange streaks to
shine through and then I also add to the
bottom right and make sure that the
Shadows are quite vibrant and
contrasting with the highlights a little
bit of a trick when you're painting into
the highlighted areas is to make sure
that your brush isn't too wet you can
make it more dry and then it's a little
bit easier to control where the paint is
going you can leave finer details on
there and you don't have to worry about
everything blending together
helpful tutorial and if it's interesting
or useful to you leave a like drop a
comment tell me what you want me to
paint next I'm hoping to turn some of
the shorts into longer content so if you
have anything you're interested in let
me know thanks
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