 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video today. It's time to continue our exploring color series with one of my all-time favorites It's time to talk about the color that wasn't there Magenta this one's gonna be fun. Let's get into it. Let's strict techno man sir That is Vinci V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V style Magenta the imaginary color originally created in 1859 and named in 1860 for a battle of the French victory over the Austrians in the magenta area of Italy French has er sorry magenta has really come into a prominence in a lot of different Media showing up and obviously a main color scheme and things like synth wave and stuff like that It's a poppy bright color that covers a fair decent spectrum Now the reason it's imaginary is because there is no single wavelength that actually creates magenta When you see two different colors of light your brain will usually sort of average the wavelength of the light it's seeing and Create that as the color you see However, if you were to average the wavelength of like red and purple or stuff like that that would create magenta In fact, you would get green but your brain doesn't like that because green doesn't make any sense And so instead we've evolved to see this as magenta and we're not alone Many things like flowers have evolved to be quite bright magenta because that provides maximum contrast to green Which is the complementary color now? There are different types of magenta's whether you're talking about the you know RGB or whether you're talking about CMYK and in fact in CMYK magenta is the M of it It is a primary color whereas an RGB. It'd be something like 2550 255 basically the absence of green Now when we talk about creating shadows with magenta We can extract the normal colors that our brain is sort of Combine smashing together to make this i.e. We can pull out the deep red pull out the deep purple pull out the deep blue And we will in fact then either push it to a cold or warmer shadow as we would like We can also just use something like black. That's perfectly fine But a better answer is to tap into that complementary nature and pull something like phthalo green Phthalo green will work basically by infusing the color that is not reflected at all In the normal magenta light like your brain isn't seeing green. It doesn't reflect any green By infusing that we get a natural shadow Now with the highlights we can of course go with some of our traditional highlight colors like ice yellow We can accentuate into a more pink with sickly pink or we can just use standard white much like we would use standard black All of those are perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with them However, we can pull the same trick we pulled with highlights Or sorry with shadows with the highlights so we can integrate a pastel or a faded green Once again because green isn't a color that is that the magenta is reflecting at all and our brain isn't witnessing We can actually integrate it depending on sort of the green tint How much tint there is in the green we use as either a highlight or a shadow to produce really interesting results The last option if for our highlights is to just punch in a fluorescent magenta. In fact, there are many fluorescent magenta It's a great fluorescent color. And so our highlight could just be Popping the color up very strong And having an extremely saturated extremely bright version of it All right, let's make this real and you'll see the difference here when we take magenta and we integrate deep red versus deep purple We get very different tones that are used to combine the magenta expressed and very quickly It won't feel like magenta anymore because we're getting back into tones that the Cones and rods in our eyes more easily see But you notice when you mix in that phthalo green you get this wonderful not quite purple color And depending on how much you mix in you can really get wonderfully naturalistic shadows Hey, I'm just gonna jump in the middle real quick here. 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If we integrate something like ice yellow We can retain a little bit more of that Warm feeling in there since those yellow tones will make the magenta feel a bit more warm magenta is another one of those colors That can go either warm or cold and in fact when we pull in the vertigris as you can see here you get a very cold highlighted magenta and This then allows you between these different highlight and color patterns to set your overall light scheme with either warm or Cold highlights or warm or cold shadows Now magenta paint as it exists in the bottle with the pigments We use in miniature paints is often extremely Transparent just sort of the nature of the thing So here I'm going over a very dark color because I wanted to show you how much that is going to set the tone of an extremely translucent color To get full opacity you're really gonna have to do multiple touches and magenta will be extremely Extremely responsive to what's underneath it It will be much brighter if you put it over a bright white much dimmer if you put it over a black So just do know your under shade matters So here I'm using some cold highlights and you can see with the vertigris integrated in and the blue pulled out Or sorry the blue punched up sorry It becomes very striking and you'll get you will get very hard sort of lines if you take these big jumps like I'm doing in This video we can also use more warmer magenta So this is more this is mixed with ice yellow for a slightly softer more traditional almost pink To to highlight the magenta and you can see how that doesn't have the same cold hard edge that the vertigris does Either is perfectly fine. It's just a question of where you want to go Both when you're making big value jumps like this will of course show these layer lines, but we'll fix that later Now let's put in some shadows. So here I'm going to use the phthalo green integrated shadow and to me This is such a wonderful color. I love magenta plus phthalo green for shadows It's just so naturalistic and it produces a really really natural dark tone it's very easy to Obviously mix in there and it works so well on regular magenta as your shadow tone Of course, the other advantage to magenta paints is that they can glaze rather easy So here I have a little bit of thinned down traditional magenta And so we don't have to worry as much about the fact when we jump big value jumps of light the fact that there is a That there's going to be a layer lying there because magenta itself glazes so masterfully well That it just becomes really really easy to smooth those transitions down And again by having the magenta going over the dark and over the light it will now express different Sort of shades of that tone and you'll get a much more interesting sort of panoply of colors Now finally, I'm going to cover my highlights with fluorescent magenta One of the keys with working with fluorescence is that first of all miniature paint fluorescence cover like absolute poop So you always want something extremely bright underneath them So here I used those existing highlights as basically just a map to use the fluorescent and when you apply this it Actually can feel brighter and more intense Than the brighter color I'm covering up even though that was a higher value Because this fluorescent magenta is so much more saturated It's going to end up having a lot of punch in the end any of these methods can work and will provide you with a Very different feel to your miniature So there you go, that's magenta a really fun Interesting powerful color it can do so much And it's one of those interesting colors that even though it doesn't actually exist It does exist for us and should be and can be a very virtuous part of a lot of different projects You work on even if you're not looking for something that's totally synthwave and bright and eye-popping Magenta can still be a great part of an overall color scheme that really adds a lot of intensity Brightness life and visual interest into your pieces So if you like this give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future if you've got questions comments drop those down below I always answer every comment and question. 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