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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

I made an interesting discovery today...

(From the left: Blue, Teal, Yellow, Red, and a bat that's obviously doing it wrong).

I originally drew the blue bat on the very left. I soon realized that even though I used brown shading and light grey highlights, I was realizing my brain was still registering it as a blue bat. Seriously, brown shading.

So I thought about this, and began changing colors. Lo and behold, the bat instantly changes how my mind perceives it as a whole when I change that one color. The grey would go with the middle shade color, then the brown would be... Well, I am actually not sure why the brown works (I'm guessing the clashing color gives a bit of extra contrast).

It just goes to show that how you use your color choices can matter a lot.
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Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

WHY are you not posting this to the art forum? This is a PERFECT example of how color theory and how the mind perceives color work.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Maybe its my monitor, but I see the bat on the left as a gray bat, and the middle one as brown. Still, it is quite interesting to see that the light gray color is the same in all of them, and seems like it should be the main color that sticks out. But it is the darker shade that somehow tricks our minds...
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Dark Yellow looks brownish (to an extent), and the blue is very desaturated, so your monitor may definitely be making these colors appear this way to you. Not a big deal to me.
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