Table of Contents
Introduction
This page is going to be a dumping ground for all the tips on drawing, composition or software hacks that I pick up along the way. At this point there isn’t going to be any sort of order to it but it may do at some point.
Colour- Choosing Colours: 60-30-10 Rule
A principle that is taken from the design world. It may well apply for illustrations that are used as part of a design of website for example but whether generally who knows.
The rule is that you use your colour palette in 60-30-10 percentages. So, one colour, the dominant colour, would be used the majority of the time (60%, usually white!). The 30% colour is then used as the secondary colour, for example on musmus.com the secondary colour is blue. The 10% is for accents and used sparingly – orange for musmus.com.
Tip
For me, as a newbie, this rule is just a good way to take tentative steps into colour and narrow down the vast options available. My guess is that once you’ve established a base, this rule gets expanded, you have two colours for 60 and 30 but many for the 10% accents.
Video
This video is the one that I found the most useful even if it is applied to website design.