Head study (2nd part)

This was a confusing assignment. I'm still not sure if I got it right. I'll have my class critique soon so I'll know what to fix. This was very interesting. I had to colorize my last black and white head study with a single hue and only vary the level of saturation. 

Version 1: Orange hue with warm light and cool shadows.

Version 2: Orange hue with cool light and warm shadows.

Version 3: Blue hue with warm light and cool shadows.

Version 4: Blue hue with cool light and warm shadows.

It was a great learning experience. I  learned about warm and cool and how that relates to saturation  and to see how much color variation can happen by only changing the saturation. 

If you want to try it here are the steps that I used:

-Open your black/white picture into Photoshop.

-Create a new layer- change settings to "hue" and select orange from your color palette.

-New layer should be selected. Click command + e to combine both layers

-Create a new layer. Change settings to  "saturation"

-Only use the orange hue to select new color. If you go closer to the left, it becomes cooler. If you use colors from the right, it becomes warmer. 

-Repeat the same steps for all versions. For the blue ones, you need to change step 2. Select blue instead of orange. 

This is the last study. I used version 1 (orange hue with warm light) to create this piece. Instead of playing with saturation, I played with hue.

My professor said that the importance of this exercise is to realize how important it is that my values work correctly and that if my values are relating correctly, and my warm-cool relationships are working, then I can do whatever I want with color and it will probably work. 

Hopefully that made some sense. I'm still not very good at it, but I learned lots  from it. I feel like I struggle with warm and cools sometimes, so this was very helpful for me.