Learn 2 Color Comic Books: Flat Coloring Plus Color Theory

Explore color theory fundamentals in this introduction, breaking it into five principles: hue, color schemes, color intensity, color temperature, and value.

Explore primary colors, the color wheel, and basic color schemes—monochromatic, analogous, triadic, and complementary—and how cyan, magenta, and yellow reshape color relationships.

Explore color intensity and purity, learn how one or two primary colors produce an intense color, while adding a third dulls it; use dull colors in environments for character pop.

Learn how color temperature uses warm and cool hues to set mood, guide the eye, and indicate focus, with purples and greens shifting by blue versus warm color balance.

Master value and tonal value to define form and depth in art, even in black and white, and use grayscale and color wheels to judge values and contrast.

Color the characters with warm yellows and oranges to attract attention, balance foreground and background using analogous and complementary schemes, and refine with the color picker and shortcuts.

Check values in grayscale proofing in Photoshop, then refine with selective brushwork, gradients, and blending modes to add flourishes while keeping a primarily flat color comic look.