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Post by The Mad Plumber on Jan 22, 2010 19:52:45 GMT -5
In regards to traditional mediums, the reason why I tend to only work in black graphic pencils is because I suffer from colorblindness. When I drew cartoon versions of myself when I was a kid, I would show my drawings to my mother and she would ask me why I colored my brown hair with a green marker.
A little part of my frustration is that people around me didn't seem to understand what colorblindness means. They would stick a red marker in front of my face and asking me what color it was; I would stick my middle finger up and ask them what color that was. I do see color and can even find certain colors attractive, but I am dreadfully inept at identifying certain colors. I would see green in brown, I would have difficulty differentiating blue and purple, and I might even identify some colors as being gray when they aren't.
My one curiosity is: how important is color to people who aren't colorblind?
Here's something that I'm reminded of. A user on another forum posted a link to a website that was filled with vicious criticisms of Rob Liefeld's work. One item of criticism was a bathtub illustation that the site author denounced for having "green" water. First, as a side note, if your criticism of the illustration is the coloring, why are you blaming Rob Liefeld? Second, I would never really note comics from when I was a kid of ever having good coloring. Today, I believe there is some high quality exercised in comic printing today. However, judging from several of the old comics I have in my modest collection, the coloring is very flat, dull, and faded, and every page just seems to have an overall dull yellow tint. Or at least that's how they appear to me.
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Post by Mod City on Jan 22, 2010 21:47:47 GMT -5
In regards to traditional mediums, the reason why I tend to only work in black graphic pencils is because I suffer from colorblindness. When I drew cartoon versions of myself when I was a kid, I would show my drawings to my mother and she would ask me why I colored my brown hair with a green marker. I'm colorblind, too. When I was young and in school I drew people with green hair and Christmas trees that were brown, not green. My parents were optometrists, so they spotted it early, but I understand where you're coming from. A lot of people don't understand that very few people see absolutely no color, and many with a particular type of colorblindness (red/green) can still usually see at least some shades of those colors, to varying degrees, at least. I don't work in the arts, so I can't say I've experienced those frustrations, but I can empathize. |
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Post by doctorz on Jan 27, 2010 13:13:09 GMT -5
I'm red\green color blind and it prevented me from going to Ringling in Sarasota to get a graphic arts degree. I was a pretty good artist back in my youth, but I knew I could never make any livelyhood from it because I had a hard time distinguishing between reds and greens. I am also pretty bad at telling any sort of difference between pastel colors. You tell someone you are color blind and they immediately start picking up stuff and asking you what color it is. I try to explain that if you have a red and green colored object of the same intensity I probably cannot tell the difference between them. That is quite a mouthful and hard for many people to comprehend.
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Post by Cerrita on Feb 2, 2010 19:04:40 GMT -5
Color is everything to me. Knowing the possibilities, I couldn't exist with a limited range, my reliance on an extensive pallet is too great. I can't have just one or two colors, I must have tremendous variety- all or none.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Feb 20, 2010 9:48:56 GMT -5
One of my best friends has a modest red/green issue. I remember once when we pulled out my stack of prismacolors to compare how we perceived various pairs. That was one thing, but he's mentioned similar annoyance with casual acquaintances doing the kind of thing you're describing.
I recollect an NPR feature from a few years back of a painter who completely lost his color vision as a result of an automobile accident. The interesting thing was that after a time he began painting again but in black and white, and this apparently increased his recognition because the work was so distinctive. Does this ring a bell with anybody?
Personally, I love color in my art and life in general. Among my favorite memories are Pennsylvania sunsets in which the entire world took on a golden glow, or hydrangea gardens with swathes of subtly varying blues and lavenders set against rich green. But another favorite memory is seeing Greenland from an airliner, with stark black mountains jutting from the white ice sheet, and the subtlety of grayscale can catch moods that nothing else can.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Mar 2, 2010 15:05:40 GMT -5
Being female, the likelihood of my being color blind is... (looking it up) less than 1 in 200. I'm not (that I know of). But I can't answer how important it is to me because, as with a lot of areas, I take stuff for granted until I lose it. Like you go along healthy for years, then you get one awful 2-week cold, and for the 2 weeks thereafter, you wake up every morning thrilled you aren't sick, appreciating your health as if it were the best of new sweethearts...and then a month later, you've forgotten again.
I like colors...but I don't know how important they are to me. I do love getting up into the mountains and looking up at night and seeing all the reds, oranges, yellows, and blues of the starts just pop for me.
But in art, I prefer black and white---I like charcoal drawings, etchings, and B&W photography better than colored art.
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Post by Mitchell on Mar 14, 2010 22:46:47 GMT -5
Other than glaucoma or diabetes, if you don't have color blindness when you're young, you won't "acquire" it. Some medications can cause it and very rare cases of aging see it happen to a degree, but the very vast majority of cases are inherited. Here's a test: www.archimedes-lab.org/colorblindnesstest.html |
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Post by doctorz on Mar 25, 2010 15:10:33 GMT -5
I read in a magazine somewhere that they are on the brink of finding a fix. It involves retina injections, so I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Post by Mod City on Mar 25, 2010 15:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by mccloud on Mar 28, 2010 9:59:18 GMT -5
At one place I worked years ago - a commercial photo lab with a full art department - the supervisor of the art department was colorblind. He'd been there for years, and yes had a degree in art. Beats me how he did it. I always enjoyed the irony of it. ;D
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Mar 31, 2010 18:05:32 GMT -5
My BIL is an electrical engineer. I've done wiring with him, which goes like this.
BIL holds up wire: Is this black or red?
Me: it's green.
Makes me a little nervous to even flip a light switch in his house.
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