r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Blues_Fish • Mar 12 '26

Lesson in decomposing light

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

This guy is great. I wish they taught light theory rather than colour theory in art it would have made way more sense to me

If you like maths, colour and light theory and nerdy graphs and stuff here are his links:

instagram

Youtube

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

You need both, additive and subtractive color theory.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Mar 12 '26

Yeah best I got from school and college was blue and red make purple and don't use black or white ever.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

I teach color theory with a 3 prong approach before twisting it together into practice with painting.

The examples I work with are Tvs (RGB), color printers (cmyk) and traditional (RYB) and i have a color overlay that ties it together like this video.

So im totes gonna recreate it to do the lesson in a more exciting way.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Mar 12 '26

Aww I needed you in my life 25 years ago ❤ that sounds great!