lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"


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lilrawk
@lilrawk

Ok, so.
I'm an uneducated Bastard that did not go to college, art school, or even graduate high school.
And I want to buy some PAINT! Specifically, professional grade screen-printing ink. I want to make things in color, so I'm gonna go ahead and buy this here kit of mixing colors, so I can make all of the colors myself: A listing for a Speedball brand screen printing kit, on Amazon.

Oh, hang on, what are those colors? Presumably they're primary pigments, CMYK, so that i can make every possible- oh. Oh no.
A closer look at the colors of ink in the kit.

Red, Light blue, Yellow, Green(???), White, and Black.
Congratulations! You've made the color palette for fucking skyrim, not the real world. These colors are gonna look like you took a shit in the paint pot.

And this goes back to what I'd put a solid 90% of us into: School lied to you about colors from day fuckin' one. Ask any child you know; Hey, little Timmy, what are the primary colors? "Red, blue, yellow!" What makes them that? "You can mix them into any color!" NO THE FUCK YOU CAN'T, TIMMY. This is only true in theory! That's why they call it Color THEORY. Little Timmy here is gonna go mix red and blue into his favorite shade of Lavender only to find that it looks weird and gross for some reason, and he's gonna give up painting forever because he thinks he just isn't made for it. No, Timmy! It's not you, don't give up on your dreams!

Timmy grew up, and he still thinks RBY are all you need to make colors, and now he's selling other people ink and paint in kits like this too, because he never learned better.

And now here I am, some dickhead furry trying to print hot hot sexy candy gore on teeshirts for my friends, having to buy primary pigments separately from the kits they should be sold in because somebody in the US public education system said "It is a good idea to teach literal infants color theory before they can even read"???? The actual primary pigments, sold separately.

SPEEDBALL! YOU'RE A HUGE NAME IN THE INK MARKET! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER! In fact, you clearly do, because you can buy SPECIFICALLY PURE CMYK PROCESS INK POTS FROM THEM. Do they come as a set? Hell the fuck no they don't. Do they at least ship together? LITERAL WEEKS APART >:C

Only one time have I ever searched online for "primary pigment mixing set" and found an actual set of primary pigments, it was by Holbein, and it was for their Japanese domestic market, not American. Americans are taught that their colors are stupid, and that pisses me off. Idk.


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in reply to @lilrawk's post:

while CMYK allows a wide range of colors, you cannot make every possible color with CMYK, just as you cannot with RBY. that's why they include the green: green is the big thing you can't get a wide range of with RBY!

if you are doing process-printing (i.e. separate layers of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) it makes sense to use CMYK but if you are actually mixing colors you would benefit from having as many colors as possible to work with, especially green and brown.

if anything, a starter kit aimed at someone who will be mixing colors and not doing process printing ought to come with red, yellow, at least one green if not two, blue, purple, brown, black, and white

It's like this in Australia too (at least, where I was taught) and it's always bothered me. The way that you have printers using CMYK and screens using RGB, and the secondary colours of one are the primary colours of the other, is so cool and elegant, and the theory explains why those things are the way they are! I seriously think it should at least be taught even if it makes more sense to use RYB in art classes.

To be honest I'm not even sure about their process cyan, given how it looks in the jar. Maybe it's lighter than it looks.

I was taught that if process colors weren't available and you just had random whatever colors, you'd use two of each primary: a purple-leaning red and an orange-leaning red, an orange-leaning yellow and a green-leaning yellow, etc. You got a lot less mud that way.

But it's as @goaty says, there will be gaps in what you can mix with any given base colors, and you want to buy additional colors to fill in those gaps. CMYK is a good-enough solution for many print applications, but there are color models with a larger number of base colors, and often you'll want to fill in with a spot color or two if there's a color you absolutely have to match (usually for branding reasons).