Originally Posted by
petthefabric
I like the black background/neutral idea. When I pulled fabrics, they were all mid to mid/light values. It would be very colorful but sorta boring value wise. The saying ‘color gets the credit, but value does the work’ stumped me. I think with a lot of value chug in one color, the pattern of that color will be lost.
Some of the collections have had a full range of values (very light to dark) for each of the colors (purple, orange, teal). Since value is doing the work of making the pattern, the eye picks up a value, let’s say dark,. Doesn’t matter if it’s orange or purple, just that it’s dark, and tries to make a pattern from dark.
If all the purples are dark and no teal/orange are dark, the eye reads the dark purple as a pattern. The orange could be medium, the eye would pick up all the orange for a pattern.
was this any clearer?