Color Tutorials

This video series gives tips on dealing with colors.

A First Look at Colors

In this 6th installment of the How to Game art series, we take a first look at colors on the computer. The next video will talk more specifically about color palettes and how to create them.

Picking Strong Colors with Hue Shifting

There is a common technique we needed to tackle before jumping onto the creation of color palettes: Hue Shifting. How does it work? That's what we'll look at in this tutorial!

Creating Appealing Color Palettes 1

Now that we know how to hue shift like the pros, we are ready to tackle color palettes. They are the painter's ammunition: emotionally loaded cartridges to shoot on the canvas. They help us to shape both our creations' form and their content.

Creating Appealing Color Palettes 2

This How to Game Art takes off where the last one ended, and shows 2 more approaches you can take to start building your color palettes.

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