color blind information please.

[setsuna801]

Hi guys I have a question there and I really need to know cuz it might put my education and profession in problems later. I just learned that I am colour blind a little bit. I have problem something seeing the different with some specific colour of red and green. I would like to know if this is going to cuz me a problem if I take a proggram in university in something like painting and drawing. I want to be a concept artist and illustrator. But I begun loving colours alot. Is there something that cam be done for that. Or I am mostly to change my dreams, or maybe I will just be very hard for me to achieve what I want, I got the motivation but still fill sad about it. Thanks for responding me as it is important.

[kev ferrara]

Setsuna, this is a very difficult question that maybe no one will have a good answer for. I have a friend who is color blind and is an artist who also can't see red or green. Yet he does landscapes with green all the time (his wife helps him with color) so there is always some way around a problem. The only issue is your willpower and your talent, really.

[Sogbad]

Hey there, I'm color blind, red green, but I only really seem to have a problem with the color blind test itself , I can only think of 2 or 3 occasions in my life, I'm 40 now, where I ever noticed it. Of course you could look at my work and tell I'm color blind

I'm an AD in the video game industry and I know at least 3 other AD's and a couple of concept artists who are color blind, so I certainly don't think that it's a reason not to pursue your chosen path.

[CCThrom]

I'm a multimedia designer by trade and one of my coworkers is mildly colorblind. He's a good designer though... works a bit more with the technical end of things than the artsy end. The only time I've seen colorblindness get in his way is when we're coming up with overall color schemes... sometimes he has to ask if what he's looking at is blue or gray. Otherwise, I'd never even know he has a limitation.

If you really want to work as an artist, I'm sure you can find ways to work with & get around this issue.

[setsuna801]

Ok, thanks very much guy, yeah the most important thing is will. But Yeah I might consider taking animation instead of painting and drawing and then take more painting on my own

[Faxtar]

I'm color blind and I do a lot of painting on the computer so to help me I use the program "WhatColor", it helps alot, download it for free over here http://www.hikarun.com/e/

Being colorblind shouldn't effect your decisions one way or other, in the end your concept, composition and values are all way more important. A lot of time people think they like the colors of a piece but its really the values that they are drawn to (color steals the credit that the values deserves.) So you shouldn't let being color blind effect your goals, its really no big deal.

[Flake]

Another wonkyvision mutant here, it's not a dealbreaker and you should be able to paint fairly convincing images as long as you focus on drawing, composition, values etc.

Honestly the only "colourblind wtf" moment I've had in the last decade was when my missus dyed her hair red and I didn't know about it for 6 months..