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| Barry Bedhead is still trying to sort colours for his goals. |
Colour is the icing of the cake with regard to compositional decisions with the picture in question. Is the tone and more importantly the drawing in place.
Regardless, questions arise when trying to tackle one's goals. The more clearly, cogent and distinctly one can answer these questions. The better one can clear up the conceptual confusion, that's what colour theory is for.
Are you handling colours from a engineering (accuracy) or an intentional design perspective? (What's it for and who's it for, belief?)
Or to put the question more simply, are you using your imagination or not?
Even if you're accurately transcribing the colours for fundamental/engineering reasons. (Plien air or Alla prima reasons, if you want to be fancy with it.) A taxonomy to sort them out is necessary, since the full spectrum within the natural world cannot be capture by the hand-made pigments we have today.
If you're doing it from an intentional design perspective, you may have to elaborate on what's it for and who's it for specifically. What's it for? (A colourful, vibrant palette for a children's illustration, or a novel illustration that's less saturated.) Who's it for? (Yourself, or your client/audience?)
What taxonomy of colours is you using to help solve these problems? These categories are meant to help you out, pick them out accordingly.
Games Jurney has covered a lot about colour within his blog. There's even a excellent video by Captain Disillusion.
Or to put the question more simply, are you using your imagination or not?
Even if you're accurately transcribing the colours for fundamental/engineering reasons. (Plien air or Alla prima reasons, if you want to be fancy with it.) A taxonomy to sort them out is necessary, since the full spectrum within the natural world cannot be capture by the hand-made pigments we have today.
If you're doing it from an intentional design perspective, you may have to elaborate on what's it for and who's it for specifically. What's it for? (A colourful, vibrant palette for a children's illustration, or a novel illustration that's less saturated.) Who's it for? (Yourself, or your client/audience?)
What taxonomy of colours is you using to help solve these problems? These categories are meant to help you out, pick them out accordingly.
Games Jurney has covered a lot about colour within his blog. There's even a excellent video by Captain Disillusion.