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Originally Posted by iomek
some people just have an eye for colour, and others don't... it's hard getting a nice colour scheme and working out fill effects and stuff, just find out what colours you want to use and make sure they go together... like oppisites, if you filled your piece with lets say, yellow/orange.. the 3d would look good if it was blue or purple... but thats not to say other colours woulden't go well, but there are some that just don't go.. look at colour wheels and get an understanding of colour, once you've done that look at other writers pieces and see what fill effects they use, eventually you'll be able to come up with your own, but getting a nice colour scheme can be as hard as getting nice letters!
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iomek is talking about complimentary colors. most people dont use them the way he's talking about tho. for every color there is a compliment...red has green, orange has blue etc. a color wheel would help you easily identify compliments. color wheels are great for figuring out color schemes. its not about complements tho. complimentary colors are used to create tension, to lead the eye around, to unify a piece in color harmony and to balance the piece. they really have very little to do with color schemes.
with that said you can derive color schemes from the color wheel. the entire concept of the color wheel however comes from color theory. color theory is just that...a theory on how to use colors, its a theory of pleasing colors...its ideas that have been shown to work. it is however just a theory. there are many different types of color schemes...monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, split complimentary, triadic, double complimentary etc. i dont really feel like sitting here and lecturing on color theory so if you want to know more about those just google it. they all use the color wheel to create harmonious colors. with color also remember you have an infinite amount of tints and shades as well as colors. most people when they start coloring try to seperate things with different colors. you don't have to use 100 different colors...its actually extremely difficult to harmonize your colors that way.
a lot of coloring is just experimentation. finding out what colors you like and how they react to other colors. the same shade of blue will look different next to green then next to orange. look at how other people use colors...what do you like about it? if u can't figure it out then bite it and see if copying what they're doing helps you figure out what it is about those colors or that piece that makes it look good to you.
hope that at least gives u a direction to go in! good luck!
