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10 Quick Tips: StorytellingFor those with high-powered jobs, demanding pets, or other drains on your valuable time: here is a quick, ten-point tutorial for better storytelling.

The points are drawn from books, articles, casually-offered-advice and my own experience. Much like the Ten Commandments, they aren't all concrete rules. Just things to strongly keep in mind.

1. Show, don't tell.
-> Don't tell us that elves are disliked. Show us the disgust on people's faces when one appears.
-> But sometimes it is quicker just to tell.

2. Dramatise more.
-> Don't give the reader overviews. Pick out scenes and dramatise them.
-> Narrators explaining things is boring. Characte

Color Theory: WHITE

1. General
- Combination of all colors of the visible light spectrum
- Hex triplet: #FFFFFF
- sRGB: 255, 255, 255

2. Psychology
- Aids mental clarity
- Encourages us to clear clutter or obstacles
- Evokes purification of thoughts or actions
- Enables fresh beginnings

3. Found In…
Culture:
- Africa: color of mourning
- Ancient China: is one of the main five classical colors; symbol of metal, autumn, west
- China: color of mourning
- India: mourning, peace, purity
- Japan: traditional color worn by brides
- Thailand: associated with Sunday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear red on Sundays, and anyone born on a Sund

Color Theory: GREY

1. General
- Describes an color between white and black
- Hex triplet: #808080
- sRGB: 128, 128, 128

2. Psychology
- Unsettles
- Creates expectations

3. Found In…
Culture:
- Representative of pessimism

Religion:
- Christianity: represents mourning and repentance

4. Companies/Brands

5. Varieties
Shades:
- Arsenic
- Bistre
- Black
- Charcoal
- Davy’s grey
- Feldgrau
- Liver
- Medium Taupe
- Pale Taupe
- Payne’s grey
- Purple Taupe
- Seal brown
- Silver
- Slate grey
- Taupe
- Taupe grey
- White

- Arsenic: (#3B444B) (59, 68, 75); color of the element

- Bistre *see Brown: (#3D2B1F) (61, 43, 3

Color Theory: RED

1. General
- Any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye
- Additive and subtractive primary
- Complementary to cyan (additive light); complementary to green (subtractive color)
- Wavelength: 625-740 nm
- Frequency: 480-405 THz
- Hex triplet: #FF0000
- sRGB: 255, 0, 0

2. Psychology
- Energy, blood
- Anger, passion, love
- Increases enthusiasm
- Encourages action and confidence
- Provides a sense of protection

3. Found In…
Art:
- Interior design and fashion: shades of red are described by reference to the colors of fruits and veg

Color Theory: GREEN

1. General
- Any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting somewhat of the midle wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye
- Additive primary and subtractive seconday
- Complementary to magenta (additive light); complementary to red (subtractive color)
- Wavelength: 520-570 nm
- Hex triplet: #00FF00
- sRGB: 0, 255, 0

2. Psychology
- Sickness
- Soothes
- Relaxes mentally, as well as physically
- Helps alleviate depression, nervousness, and anxiety
- Offers a sense of renewal, self-control, and harmony

3. Found In…
Culture:
- Worldwide color used to represent safety
- China: jade stones represent virt

Color Theory: BLACK

1. General
- Absence of light in any part of the visible spectrum
- Hex triplet: #000000
- sRGB: 0, 0, 0

2. Psychology
- Is mysterious by evoking a sense of potential and possibility
- Makes one feel inconspicuous
- Provides a restful emptiness

3. Found In…
Culture:
- Color of prestige
- Color of seriousness and authority
- Ancient China: is one of the main five classical colors; symbol of water, winter, north
- China: traditional clothing color for boys
- England: traditional color of taxi cabs
- Kenya: associated with rain clouds
- Rastafari: seen as beautiful
- West: color of mourning

Holidays:
- Halloween: along wi

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Color Theory: BLUE

1. General
- Any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting of one of the shortest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye
- Additive and subtractive primary
- Complementary to yellow (additive light); complementary to orange (subtractive color)
- Wavelength: 440-490 nm
- Hex triplet: #0000FF
- sRGB: 0, 0, 255

2. Psychology
- Calms, sedates, cools
- Aids intuition
- Sadness, tranquility
- Trustworthy, dependable, committed

3. Found In…
Culture:
- Blue is the color formerly used by the street gang Crips
- Least "gender specific" color, having equal appeal to both men and women
- Ancient China: is on

Color Theory: GREEN

Color Theory: YELLOW

1. General
- Color evoked by light consisting of a suitable mixture of somewhat longer and shorter wavelengths. Stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, but does not significantly stimulate the S cone cells
- Additive secondary and subtractive primary
- Complementary to blue (additive light); complementary to violet (subtractive color)
- Wavelength: 570-580 nm
- Hex triplet: #FFFF00
- sRGB: 255, 255, 0

2. Psychology
- Stimulates mental processes and the nervous system
- Encourages communication
- Activates memory
- Happiest color in the spectrum
- Associated with cowardice

3. Found In…
Art:
- I

Color Theory: ORANGE

1. General
- Occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
- Subtractive secondary
- Complementary to blue (subtractive color)
- Wavelength: 585-620 nm
- Hex triplet: #FF7F00
- sRGB: 255, 127, 0

2. Psychology
- Stimulates activity and appetite
- Encourages socialization and oxygen intake to the brain

3. Found In…
Culture:
- China and Japan: color of happiness and love

Religion:
- Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony, Pig
- India and Sri Lanka: represents Hinduism. Hindu gurus usually wear orange robes
- Northern Ireland: signifies Protestantism

Holidays:
- Halloween: because orange is the color of pumpkins
- Thanksgivin

Color Theory: RED

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Color Schemes: Warm.Coolby ~ArcherSemine

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Felt like doing some more tutorials. This time I'm covering color schemes. I categorized this as misc. because it's not restrictive to digital vs. traditional medium, or to any particular program. Anyone can use this information.

Color Scheme: Basics [link]
Color Scheme: Analogous [link]
Color Scheme: Complementary [link]
Color Scheme: Split-Complemetary [link]
Color Scheme: Triadic [link]
Color Scheme: Square Tetrad [link]
Color Scheme: Rectangular Tetrad [link]

*TheSkaldofNvrwinter Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

have you let people know that there is actually a warm and cool version of each, whether they be warm or cool?

~ArcherSemine Jan 17, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

What are you talking about?

~Gookins Jan 28, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I think he means that on a local scale the same general color can be cooler or warmer. For instance you can have the general color red, but depending in what hue direction you lead it you get a warmer/cooler version of the base color.

If you move the hue slider in the direction of yellow you get a warmer version of red until it eventually turns into orange. If you move red towards blue, so in the opposite direction, you receive a cooler version of it until it eventually turns into purple/pinkish. That's how i understand it anyway, just don't take my word for granted since i'm pretty much an amateur.

Here you have my source on this.
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Btw: Great tutorial series, i learned a lot from you