Categorizing Chartpak Admarkers

[John.Dallinga]

Hi All!

Like some of you can sympathize, when going to use a marker or colored pencil on a drawing, there is nothing more frustrating than picking two very similar hues but not knowing for sure if one is a warm tone or a cool tone. Testing each against a contrasting color on a scrap piece of paper can be helpful, but not if one is under a time crunch. Prismacolor pencils and Chartpak markers do have a couple of numbers that correspond to each item, but is there any way to be able to separate warm from cool colors other than method of experimentation? Anyone know of a good resource which reveals these cryptic labels?

Just desiring to be anally organized,

John

[Jordan Lockman]

I personally take a path of simplification. You do not need 50-100 different colors you only need maybe a dozen. I have shrunk my color selection down and have written down the formula of colors that I render with for different elements. Yes sounds boring, but we are trying to create simple graphics that convey our designs and not trying to recreate The Sistine Chapel on every rendering. If you are drawing a colored pencil drawing that is going to be shown in a gallery I understand the need for an overwhelming color palette, but for design rendering keep it simple is my motto. Then I bundle the colors by element that I use them to color, for example, my tree colors are bundled, my grass colors in another bundle.

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