Color Study Notes (2021/12/3) (Patreon)

Did my daily color study today and I had a question recently pop up in my head this week about colors (and values)

Simply put, we have highlight, light, midtones, and shadows, where midtones are supposedly the "local value/color" of the object, which led to my thoughts of how I make choices with my colors. I kept thinking "Do I then start with midtones? light? shadow?" referring to base colors. Which by definition, local color is said to be the natural color of an object in ordinary daylight. Note *light*

With shadows, I've pretty much simplified it in my head that the color of the shadow is the overall ambient color (in this image, top left, 2nd row) would be blue due to the night sky, so your shadow color decision will be affected by the blue ambient color/light.

Now Im diving into light which is probably more complicated because we have to keep in mind the light intensity, color, distance, and the surface, and color of the object. Firstly, let me get this out of the way, (I think) the local color is different from the base color, BUT, knowing the local color of an object is helpful (and maybe even really important) to understand what your base color will be. In this study, the base color of the skin is technically not the yellow, but the blue. Then presenting the light from the left (microwave in this scene from mieruko-chan), we see more of the local color of the skin because of light (it may be warmer because its not ordinary daylight, its orange-ish light)

Just some notes from my study today. With learning it's always an ongoing thing so I will probably make more sense of this in the future, but I wanna explain what I've realized or learned. I hope I wasnt too complicated, and if it was, don't worry, I'm probably just as confused as you are. 

*Editor note(aka me): I still think local value is more important than local color (ex. blue's local value is darker than yellow)