Complementary Color
- Thread starter Gussy
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Yeah Gussy colour wheels are very good if you are trying to work out what goes with what.
Sometimes I think I should have a look at one when I\'m slapping paint on a miniature but I like messing around.If it does not work its filed away into my little brain not to try that again though sometimes I forget.
Sometimes I think I should have a look at one when I\'m slapping paint on a miniature but I like messing around.If it does not work its filed away into my little brain not to try that again though sometimes I forget.
Yes, I looked at it...but couldn\'t figure it out. It says use yellow...but I imagine it being weird.
They\'re for Chaos Terminators. Brazen brass for the metal parts. The wheel suggest golden yellow and light green. However, I can\'t use golden yellow as it looks too close to the brazen brass. Light green will make it the focus of the figure. It\'s for a tabbard.
They\'re for Chaos Terminators. Brazen brass for the metal parts. The wheel suggest golden yellow and light green. However, I can\'t use golden yellow as it looks too close to the brazen brass. Light green will make it the focus of the figure. It\'s for a tabbard.
QuietiManes
New member
You can take your picture there, open it up in a paint/graphics program. Anything would work, even MS paint. Although the better programs will give you more options to play with though. Anyway, just colour in the tabard with different colours until you find one that almost works. Then adjust the colour around until it\'s perfect, lighter, darker, adjust the mix (I.E. if it\'s a green, try using more of a bluish or yellowish green...or play around with the mix of the highlights and shadows...highlight with greens or yellows...shade with green, blue, black, red...whatever).
There\'s an army painter thing on the GW site too, I know there\'s a Marine one, I think there\'s a Chaos one. You could check it out too, not sure if it has a tabard.
There\'s an army painter thing on the GW site too, I know there\'s a Marine one, I think there\'s a Chaos one. You could check it out too, not sure if it has a tabard.
Friar
Dorks for Orks
Not sure how technically acurate this is but I use the whole complementary color as a guide, like perhaps a yellowish brown for the loin cloth or pulling some pale moldy green color on the skull as a tint. Heck just giving the brass a greenish oxidization effect like on old copper would work to included a complement color. Personally I\'d almost lean taward the loin cloth as a darker nuetral color a greyish tone but that color scheme is hard to get ideas on what to go with. Also whatever color you go with using some weathering on the armor, you could take that color and use it to dirty up the cloth to tie it together so it doesn\'t make his crotch a beacon of attention.
Perhaps this Article will help I love the pic of the redhead where the whole pic is red but her eyes which are bright green, always reminds me of how a lil splash can set off a whole piece.
QuietManes suggestion is also excellent take that pic and play around in photo shop and see what grabs ya.
Good luck
Perhaps this Article will help I love the pic of the redhead where the whole pic is red but her eyes which are bright green, always reminds me of how a lil splash can set off a whole piece.
QuietManes suggestion is also excellent take that pic and play around in photo shop and see what grabs ya.
Good luck
Theomar Pius
New member
A really easy way to do it is look at pro sports. You can usually find really good color combos among their ranks.
CaptNarcissisto
Member
Without having to read an enitre article on color theory, I think the simplest way to see what looks good, is by picking a color on the color wheel, and using it\'s opposing color. So, using purple, the opposing color would be green. Please someone tell me if I\'m wrong.
So what I might try from what I see you\'ve done already, is to try a green oxidation on the metal parts. Maybe that\'s what you mean in your last post, but I\'m not sure. There is a nice new article up all about doing oxidation like this; you can see if from the voting pages under recent articles. So, you\'d have the purple armor, with the bronze metalic trim with heavy oxidation. Hope that is of some help.
So what I might try from what I see you\'ve done already, is to try a green oxidation on the metal parts. Maybe that\'s what you mean in your last post, but I\'m not sure. There is a nice new article up all about doing oxidation like this; you can see if from the voting pages under recent articles. So, you\'d have the purple armor, with the bronze metalic trim with heavy oxidation. Hope that is of some help.
PegaZus
Stealth Freak
You could use color jack to get the color wheel part, and I\'ve been using color match to pull the proper colors off for my Reaper paints.
So, for example, Dark Angels Green goes into Color Match. It comes back with 276741 (the hex code). Go to the Color Jack, find that color on the wheel. It says then that the complement would be 4D002C. Put that back into color match, and out pop ...
Actually, I\'ve been trying the above for about 15 minutes. I give up. Sorry, the tools are nice (especially color match), but not very useful for finding the complements.
Wonder if you could just use color match? Find the paint you\'re using, convert from hex to 255, add 255/2, then put that back into color match. Or just do the hex math in your head.
I think I\'m making this needlessly complex. I\'ll stop.
Using these 2 togather works good (if you dont mind using 2 windows) ... Just get your hex code from color match and put it in the color scheme generator and it will give you the complimentry colors ..
http://colors.silicon-dragons.com/
http://www.tamingthebeast.net/generators/color-scheme-chooser.htm
http://colors.silicon-dragons.com/
http://www.tamingthebeast.net/generators/color-scheme-chooser.htm
PegaZus
Stealth Freak
That\'s what was needed! Thanks! Or at least, from my side. Was able to complete what I was doing above and came up with Ruddy Leather (Reaper Master) and Scorched Brown (Citadel) as complementary colors for the green.
Hopefully, someone other than myself found this useful. lol
Einion
New member
Excellent
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Do want to mention something that I was going to post a while ago - what goes with another colour is at least in part down to taste, which will be influenced by your culture and personality (Asian cultures, the Chinese for example, have traditionally a very different take on what colours work together). So no matter what a rigid scheme or tool tell you feel free to do something different if you like the results.
Some complements do work together for most viewers - this type of violet with green is the classic example. Cyan and a scarlet on the other hand I find a bit clashing, unless you tone one or both down a bit.
But the best example though is violet-blue (as in the B of RGB) and yellow, its visual complement; these don\'t go together at all for most people.
Einion
