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Color Red, what does it represent? How does it effect human's emotion.

Color Red, what does it represent? How does it effect human's emotion.
Useful tips and technique for artists on how to draw, composition, and food for visual thought from idrawgirls.com

Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.

Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. In heraldry, red is used to indicate courage. It is a color found in many national flags.

Red brings text and images to the foreground. Use it as an accent color to stimulate people to make quick decisions; it is a perfect color for 'Buy Now' or 'Click Here' buttons on Internet banners and websites. In advertising, red is often used to evoke erotic feelings (red lips, red nails, red-light districts, 'Lady in Red', etc). Red is widely used to indicate danger (high voltage signs, traffic lights). This color is also commonly associated with energy, so you can use it when promoting energy drinks, games, cars, items related to sports and high physical activity.

Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.
Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.

So now you can use this information to help you create you art or you can analyze what you feel when you picking color at time. It's subconscious for most of us art when we pick the color, but there is something behind it. :)

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!)
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Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

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** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

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Peace!



** If you have any basic questions or specific please looked up Q/A section. Most of the time your questions has already been answered in Q/A.

If you need any help or support you can
-post questions or comment on the post (seems to be the fastest way to get response)
Peace,

Comments

Luca said…
wow Xia, this is a good piece of information... All that you said is true but many of the times we don't even refelct on it! "Sometimes the harderst things to know are yet the simplest things to see!"

Thanks man...by the way I just got some of your feature tutorials- now what I should do is find some time to watch them (or better observe them!) I'll send you my reply on them as soon as I finish them.

Thanks bro!
Anonymous said…
Hi, first think : I love your blog, all videos are very interesting (sorry if my english is not perfect, I'm french...). I've got a blog too, where I show my work (with photoshop cs), you can come to see that, if you have a time. See you soon and I wish you a good day, bye...
Anonymous said…
Oops ! it's 5:47am you sould sleep I suppose, here it's 2:50pm bye...
idrawgirls said…
Luca>> Thanks. :) I hope to post more of the similar subject matter.
As for the feature tuts, 99.9% of the customers like them very much, that's why I keep adding more full-length to the library. They are by far the most effortable online tutorial ever! Thanks for the generous support. :)

artseb> Hey there! thanks for stopping by and kind regards. You are welcome to stop by and say hi to all of us anytime...we are always here. I will try to check it out. peace! :)