Learn to Make Confident Color Palette Choices
Explore essential color theories: complementary palettes, color temperature, spectrum transitions, color vibrations, diverse palettes, and effective practice methods.
Includes bonus photo references and Marco's personal digital brush pack.
One of the best art courses I have ever done in my life.
Your Colors Aren't Working and You Don't Know Why
- 01Your colors look muddy and you can't figure out why
- 02Your colors feel overstimulating or chaotic
- 03You can't seem to find the right balance or harmony in your palette
- 04You're unsure how lighting or temperature affects color choices
- 05You've watched a lot of color theory videos and nothing clicks
Build Confidence in Your Color Choices
Color is one of the most challenging aspects of art, but it doesn't have to be. Color Survival Guide takes the mystery out of color and gives you the skills to use it with confidence. It covers how color moves, how temperature works, how to use vibration, and how to build palettes that hold together.
See What You'll Learn
A look at how the Color Survival Guide breaks down color theory into painting decisions you can use right away.
By the End of This Course,
You'll Be Able To:
You'll stop guessing at colors and start choosing them for specific reasons. Every decision ties back to what the painting needs.
You'll understand how light and temperature shift the colors you mix, and how to use that to create depth.
You'll know how to build a palette that holds together across a whole painting. Works the same way digital or traditional.
What Artists Are Saying
I've always felt insecure about coloring my art. This course broke down color theory in a way that is easy to understand and is filled with practical exercises that I will keep using to deepen my understanding further. Money well spent!
If there is anything Marco Bucci is known for unanimously, it is how to use color. This guide is an easy to follow, yet incredibly in depth break down of how color can be used and how to make colors on a page work in harmony. No words are wasted, and you come away from it a better artist than you started.
Marco Bucci is an excellent educator. The exercises for each chapter are intuitive and ultimately freeing. Painting along and doing the exercises several times with different colours and images has really helped me make sense of the relative nature of colour.
I'm obsessed observing everything, matching values, saturation, and analyzing against everything I've learned in this course. He's a great communicator and makes easy to get the concepts, encourage to experiment, to get your canvas and your brushes to start doing.
I enjoyed this course. I was really stuck on understanding how to get the right colours. It has really helped me with the fundamentals; the choices are easier. I still go back on the course sometimes when I forget some things. This has filled a massive gap in my knowledge!
Marco Bucci has a special way of teaching things. Sometimes you need someone to use just the right words to take it to another level. And this course made a lot of things click for me :)
I learned a lot in this class, and I would recommend this to anyone getting started in colour. Simple and concise.
Marco Bucci's explanation of colour is a life-saver for someone who is more used to traditional art and struggles with the millions of options in digital art: he has shown me a way to paint digitally that feels akin to traditional, and helped me understand colour better than anyone else!
I came to this course thinking I know a lot about color, and I do. I am happy to say that I learned a lot more than I expected to learn about color from this course. Painting has already become more enjoyable and the results, stunningly improved.
Thorough lessons about perceiving colors, their movements in different conditions. Everything is well-explained. This is just like a magic color trip to me.
This is my first approach to colour theory and I feel it's very complete. I really like the exercises in the final chapter; I feel it's something to structure my study and to begin by.
So rich, so deep, so many path and new view opening with numerous insight and exercises to integrate and practice! Thanks so much
Very elaborated and detailed color guide. Thanks for the knowledge sharing and experience you pass on to others.
Choose Your Learning Path
Select the option that works best for you.
Your path towards better color choices.
A complete color course you can work through at your own pace.
- How Does Color Move
- Color Temperature
- Color Movement Across the Spectrum
- Color Vibration
- Color Palettes
- Marco's Brush Pack
- Getting Started with Digital Painting
- Digital Painting Courses 1, 2 & 3
- Digital Brushwork Techniques
- Color Survival Guide
- Understanding & Painting the Head
- Using 3D Techniques with Digital Painting
- Marco's Brush Pack
- Also included:
- 6-month community access (livestreams, Q&A, challenges, critiques)
- Free Audiobook: Creativity & the Campfire
- Extended Brush Pack
Marco Bucci
I'm a professional concept artist and illustrator with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry. I've worked with major studios including Disney, Dreamworks, and various game development companies.
What I care about most now is helping artists understand the principles behind great work. Through my courses and community, I've reached over a million artists online and helped them develop their skills and grow as artists.
No matter where you are in your practice, the way I teach fundamentals will change how you see and approach your paintings.
Frequently Asked Questions
For traditional media, any brand of watercolors and gouache will work, though do not recommend student-grade paints. I use brands like Winsor&Newton, Holbein, and Daniel Smith. I also recommend using at least 140lb paper, as anything thinner will not be able to survive multiple washes.
Your Path to Better Color Choices
Color stops being the hard part once you know how it moves.