I wish I know about this in art school. We had to make our own color charts and figure things out for ourselves.
The pro version requires a sign-up and the unlimited version is paid. There are still lots of good free featuress to use.
subtractive color mixing on an additive colour interface?
Subtractive colour mixing is a good skill to have if you want more expensive looking pigments on a shity pigment budget. Some paint prices are downright obnoxious.
With no callibrated screens, that’s not quite precise
True, but art will always look different anyway, unless it’s always under diffused, white light.
It’s a good baseline because it shows how pigments don’t always mix the way you would expect them too based on a colour wheel. It does a good job of showing of showing how some yellows can wash out other colours in even mixtures, or how some blues make more of a brown when mixed with yellow or red, as opposed to a green or purple.
art will always look different anyway, unless it’s always under diffused, white light.
The same diffused, white light, that is the same brightness, and same distance. But close enough works for most things.
An apt addendum.
Looks interesting, I really like playing with colour and reading about colour theory
Nothing beats mixing your own colours and then wondering ‘what the fuck?’
When I was trying to mix a value scale of yellow using black and after a point it always started turning green. I thought I was doing something wrong 😆
I highly recommend Stephen Quillers books on colour, particularly how he neutralises complementary colours. My only gripe is that he hardly ever uses the pigment codes
