In this lesson I just want to take a few minutes to show you some places that you can kind of get some
inspiration for creating color palettes in the beginning or if you're feeling stumped or just particularly
uninspired some day and you need to create a color palette.
So the first place you can go is actually just Google and then type in Wikipedia list of color palettes
and the first result should be this Wikipedia list of color palettes.
So if you click the link it will take you to this page here and you can of course go to the table of
contents and just pick something.
But what's most notable about it is that it all actually lists the color pouts of particular devices
and namely old videogame consoles.
It will list the color palettes that they used to use.
So here you can see the color palettes that the Sega Master System used to use in Tendo Game Boy that
sort of thing.
So you can use this as a jumping off point or to challenge yourself to see what you can come up with.
Using a restricted color palette from decades ago the other technique that you can use is finding a
color palette generating site like coolers that.
I think I'm seeing that right.
There are some other ones that do something similar but essentially if you go here and click start the
generator button
takes a second to load.
It will give you a randomly generated color palette and if you just keep hitting spacebar it'll continue
to spit out color palettes over and over and over again.
Now if you like a particular color you can hit lock.
You can adjust the hues saturation you can move it around.
You can pick a different shade of that color and then because this one is locked if you hit spacebar
it'll go ahead and just try to find other colors that match that one that you like.
Now this may not be enough to create a full color palette so this might work just as a jumping off point
but it might work for something if you're really trying to challenge yourself and see what you can pull
off with just five colors.
So it's an option for you to use if you think that it'll get you at least partially where you want to
go.
Like I said there are some other alternatives but out of all of the options I think this is the one
that I prefer the most at least right now.
The other thing you can do is just go to google image search and type in pixel or color palettes and
then kind of use something as inspiration.
So you can pull something like this or you can even look at something like this and say OK well I'm
going to challenge myself to make a push.
I don't particularly know how to create a color palette for a Bush.
Here we go.
I'm going to go ahead and use this one.
So that will definitely work for you.
I will say when you're doing this technique where you just type in pixel art in Google Image Search
make sure that you're safe search is on you'll get some interesting results.
You may not want to get at work or in front of kids or something like that.
So just be aware that that might come up.
But you can also use something like this to just get some inspiration or borrow a color palette from
somebody.
And you know when it comes to borrowing color palettes the other place you could look at is Pinterest.
You can type in 8 bit color I'm sorry 8 bit pixel art inspiration and get a bunch and you just type
in pixel art type in 8 bit.
I would say you know try a few different combinations of words to see what results you get and what
actually returns what you're looking for.
You know you can pull images like this and sorry Well I'm going to try to create an image using this
particular color palette or something that I can create from this you know never steal anything outright
or claim something that's yours that it's not.
You know of course don't do that but you can use other people's work kind of as a way to study what
they've done and then try to replicate it and grow your own skill set.
The last place that I think you might be able to kind of utilize is actually just color Adobe dot com.
Now when you go there it's actually going to load a color wheel.
Now if you're comfortable using color wheels you can go ahead and use this.
And again you'll get five colors and you can kind of customize this but personally I think that if you're
looking to do something kind of just like OK I'm going to go online and get to see what I can get for
inspiration and to see what others have done.
Just go ahead and click the Explore button and you'll get a page full of small color palettes again
five colors that other people have put together and have uploaded to share.
Now you can use these again as a jumping off point or as a challenge yourself to see what you can pull
off with a restricted palette.
Again don't you know claim that they're yours if they're not.
But you know this is a valid method to kind of get the creative juices flowing or see what you can do
using something that you know maybe you didn't come up with because there may be you know a situation
where working for a client you're working in a company and they're like the color for this character
you know can't be changed.
So this is the palette for this character period.
And you got to come up with something so you know go ahead and try it out.
Like I said I didn't want to spend a bunch of time on this but I did want to give you some options that
you can use in the beginning while trying to get used to creating color palettes or if you're feeling
particularly uninspired or you just want something to give you kind of like a jumpstart when you're
creating a new one.
So go ahead and you know take a look around see what you can find.
And in the next lesson we're going to look at creating color palettes using index color from images
that we find.
OK.
So I will see there.