Clarifying the color wheel
Before we get too far into the depths of this topic, I want to make it very clear that we will be using the "RGB" color wheel (the default of Krita and most digital art software) instead of the more traditional "RYB" color wheel that you would use in traditional oil, acrylic, watercolor, or gouache painting. As we reviewed at the end of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Krita, we will be using the HSV color model type in the Color Selector Settings section of Krita, as seen in the following screenshot:
What is the color wheel? In the most basic of terms, the color wheel is a method of mapping colors in relation to one another. There are a variety of color wheels you can use in visual arts, but since we are working with the additive color theory that digital art provides through using light, we will use the RGB color...