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In this lesson I just want to take a few minutes to show you some places that you can kind of get some

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inspiration for creating color palettes in the beginning or if you're feeling stumped or just particularly

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uninspired some day and you need to create a color palette.

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So the first place you can go is actually just Google and then type in Wikipedia list of color palettes

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and the first result should be this Wikipedia list of color palettes.

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So if you click the link it will take you to this page here and you can of course go to the table of

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contents and just pick something.

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But what's most notable about it is that it all actually lists the color pouts of particular devices

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and namely old videogame consoles.

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It will list the color palettes that they used to use.

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So here you can see the color palettes that the Sega Master System used to use in Tendo Game Boy that

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sort of thing.

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So you can use this as a jumping off point or to challenge yourself to see what you can come up with.

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Using a restricted color palette from decades ago the other technique that you can use is finding a

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color palette generating site like coolers that.

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I think I'm seeing that right.

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There are some other ones that do something similar but essentially if you go here and click start the

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generator button

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takes a second to load.

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It will give you a randomly generated color palette and if you just keep hitting spacebar it'll continue

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to spit out color palettes over and over and over again.

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Now if you like a particular color you can hit lock.

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You can adjust the hues saturation you can move it around.

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You can pick a different shade of that color and then because this one is locked if you hit spacebar

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it'll go ahead and just try to find other colors that match that one that you like.

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Now this may not be enough to create a full color palette so this might work just as a jumping off point

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but it might work for something if you're really trying to challenge yourself and see what you can pull

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off with just five colors.

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So it's an option for you to use if you think that it'll get you at least partially where you want to

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go.

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Like I said there are some other alternatives but out of all of the options I think this is the one

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that I prefer the most at least right now.

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The other thing you can do is just go to google image search and type in pixel or color palettes and

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then kind of use something as inspiration.

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So you can pull something like this or you can even look at something like this and say OK well I'm

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going to challenge myself to make a push.

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I don't particularly know how to create a color palette for a Bush.

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Here we go.

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I'm going to go ahead and use this one.

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So that will definitely work for you.

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I will say when you're doing this technique where you just type in pixel art in Google Image Search

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make sure that you're safe search is on you'll get some interesting results.

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You may not want to get at work or in front of kids or something like that.

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So just be aware that that might come up.

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But you can also use something like this to just get some inspiration or borrow a color palette from

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somebody.

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And you know when it comes to borrowing color palettes the other place you could look at is Pinterest.

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You can type in 8 bit color I'm sorry 8 bit pixel art inspiration and get a bunch and you just type

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in pixel art type in 8 bit.

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I would say you know try a few different combinations of words to see what results you get and what

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actually returns what you're looking for.

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You know you can pull images like this and sorry Well I'm going to try to create an image using this

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particular color palette or something that I can create from this you know never steal anything outright

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or claim something that's yours that it's not.

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You know of course don't do that but you can use other people's work kind of as a way to study what

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they've done and then try to replicate it and grow your own skill set.

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The last place that I think you might be able to kind of utilize is actually just color Adobe dot com.

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Now when you go there it's actually going to load a color wheel.

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Now if you're comfortable using color wheels you can go ahead and use this.

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And again you'll get five colors and you can kind of customize this but personally I think that if you're

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looking to do something kind of just like OK I'm going to go online and get to see what I can get for

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inspiration and to see what others have done.

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Just go ahead and click the Explore button and you'll get a page full of small color palettes again

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five colors that other people have put together and have uploaded to share.

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Now you can use these again as a jumping off point or as a challenge yourself to see what you can pull

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off with a restricted palette.

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Again don't you know claim that they're yours if they're not.

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But you know this is a valid method to kind of get the creative juices flowing or see what you can do

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using something that you know maybe you didn't come up with because there may be you know a situation

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where working for a client you're working in a company and they're like the color for this character

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you know can't be changed.

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So this is the palette for this character period.

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And you got to come up with something so you know go ahead and try it out.

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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

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you can use in the beginning while trying to get used to creating color palettes or if you're feeling

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particularly uninspired or you just want something to give you kind of like a jumpstart when you're

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creating a new one.

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So go ahead and you know take a look around see what you can find.

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And in the next lesson we're going to look at creating color palettes using index color from images

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that we find.

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OK.

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So I will see there.