Red/Green Color deficiency "Color Blindness

[Mad_Mistro]

Maybe someone can help me stop worrying or something. I've always loved drawing but ive also always had truble with color, kinda minor trouble. For example, in elementary when ever i colored people i always used green for skin. Over the years i just started drawing in black and white because im not confident enough with the color thing. btw, for anyone whos a little...confused about color blindness. No i dont see in black and white that's VERY rare. I have red green color deffeiciency. It doesnt mean i cant see those colors its just that i cant see in as many shades of color as the normal person can. I want to get into modeling which is coming along good but i stay away from making my own textures. I'm pretty sure i can color things correctly if i work hard at it but i dunno. Thing is will I ever be able to get a good job in modeling or animating or doing concept art? I also think its obvious im probably gonna have a hard time getting a job period. Anyways, I know theres artists out there who has the same trouble as me and do well any help will be appreciated.

[Wohr Path]

I am not color-blind but It seems to me that as long as you are a talented artist as far as drawing skills and anatomy and such you could work around your slight limitations, most concept art is not even colored any way and almost every color is open for interpretation unless you specifically want the character to be human with normal colored skin. If I am not wrong 30% of men are partially color blind so there are probably 30% of artists that are in the same boat. Also I dont see how being colorblind hinders your ability to model at all? You should definitely play to your strengths, work on modeling, sketching/drawing marker rendering and perhaps coloring of peices where the color is not as important, such as vehicles, equipment, clothing and such. Another thought would be to check your colors using photoshop, RGB are just numbers to the computer, 0-255 of each and then saturation, if you figured out what the numbers were for the colors you have the most trouble with that could possibly help.

I guess I cant really fully understand the problem, because I dont have it, but since no one else has posted here I thought I would, I hope this is at least some help. Just keep at it and dont give up, if you are talented enough in other areas it shouldnt matter.

[Erik]

Online color blindness test:

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/vision_sabotage.asp

Enjoy!

[Mad_Mistro]

Eh lol nice try man but i dont see how ppl are scared ofthose things.

[Main Loop]

Bob Fawcett and AB Frost were colorblind, and they became some of America's great illustrators..

[FONGOOL]

I worked with a guy who was color blind and it caused problems. For example, he had made a concrete texture map that he was plastering all over the videogame level he was building and a couple of us noticed there were huge, glowing red stripes all over everything.

We were saying "what's up with all the red stripes? Is that some kind of lighting error? what is that?" and he said "What are you guys talking about?" And we said "what are we talking about?!? You can't see those glowing red stripes all over everyting??" And he said "...No..."

So in his case it clearly was beyond any possibility of being able to compensate for his ability to percieve color, he flat out couldn't see the problem at all, and it was REALLY pronounced.

[caulisxcaput]

I, actually, suffer from the exact same problem you do. Red green and everything. I only started painting this year but initially I had the same concern you did, that the colors would be off or I'd miss something or whatever. It really depends. I don't know how colorblind you are, I'm pretty colorblind (atleast so far as with those tests with the colors and the numbers, I can't even see numbers in half of them). If you're running into problems like the ones Fongool mentioned, you may be in trouble. But. When I paint, no one notices that I'm colorblind because, I think, if you color everything the way you see it as opposed to the way you think it should be, everything should match up, because it's all painted "colorblind." Also. I rely alot on labels. Whether it be coloring digitally or painting or whatever, it's always good to start with a named color so that you don't end up with "huge glowing red stripes" because you didn't know.

In conclusion, stick to your visual color palette and start from palette colors so you have an idea of the color you're working and then think it out. You're kind of forced to think it out because if you can't tell exactly what color it is, you have to be able to figure it out based on what color you started with and what you did to it.

Hope that helps.

[one2hit]

I have RG colorblindness, and color always makes me nervous...I always paint green skin also. Just can't see it. There are contact lenses now that correct this problem, and let you see in normal color...they can be had for around $300 for a pair...hrmmm I'm kinda interested in that and I might get fitted for a pair in the next year. Anyway..yeah colorblindness sucks

[Paralax]

Where can I get myself a test for colorblindness?(I know liquid generation enough :P)

I seem to have a partial colorblindess but no so much as not being able to define colors. Its mor i the shades. ESPECIALLY Red and green.

I noticed I had these problems when I had to focus a lot to see if ym router's LED was red or green, I also found myself confusing color such as Purple with pink or dark blue. It just happened.

Fortunately I have gotten to study the way I see these colors and understand them better, so if I had partial color blindness it would be very small. It would always be good to check my eyesight....