Jim Krause

Jim Krause’s videos were pretty educational. He seemed to repeat himself a lot, but it helped the information stick better. I do wish that it were a little more fun just so I felt more engaged, like the other videos we watched I felt more engaged because the people we watched just gleamed with excitement for the jobs they had and the things they did. Otherwise, it was very educational and I learned a good amount about the way colors work.

He broke it down to 3 simple rules and I feel like that made it a lot easier to wrap your head around, especially since the color palette is such a broad subject. There are so many colors in the world, and it’s easy to get lost in which ones to choose from while working in design, any art for that matter.

I know that personally I have trouble with color combinations a lot of the time while drawing. My favorite medium is pencil. Color pencils and regular pencils. When I am trying to decide on how I should color in my more abstract pieces I recently started referring to the book and thinking back to what I learned from watching the video of Jim. It’s been surprisingly helpful. Turns out all his repetition was useful.

I even learned something about colors that I never knew about. I learned that all colors are just the primary colors, but with different saturations, different tints, different tones, and different values. I always thought it was a series of colors, but now I know it all originated from a set of three simple colors.