Blending colours in the digital realm is very different to traditional painting. The final appearance of your physical art depends on your choice of paints and brushes, paint quantity, mixing intensity, brush angle, brushstroke weight and speed, paper colour, lighting, and many other elements. There are too many factors in play to duplicate the behaviour of real ink and pigments, but it can be simulated and there's a multitude of applications that try to do this. They vary enormously in price, complexity, input method and output quality.
Inkscape is not one of these apps. There's no intent to reproduce the look of traditional painting. However, it does provide several colour blending methods aimed at web graphic design. For example: Â
Colour gradients transition from one colour to another.
Transparency partially reveals colours below another shape.
Some filters generate colours algorithmically.
Unlike real painting, you can change how colours interact in your digital artwork. Mixing yellow and blue doesn't have to yield green. Open this drawing in Inkscape. Select the three circles. Open the Fill and Stroke dialog [shift+ctrl+f]. Change the entry in [Blend mode: XX].
I was fiddling around with this myself and noticed these colors don't blend like they should without a computer. It worked for creating pure light, but creating black seems to bug out.
Beyond the Basics Color Mixing
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Is it possible to mix colors in Inkscape as one would do in traditional non-digital painting?
I´ve honestly no clue what you´re aiming for. Blend-modes like here:
No, but......
Blending colours in the digital realm is very different to traditional painting. The final appearance of your physical art depends on your choice of paints and brushes, paint quantity, mixing intensity, brush angle, brushstroke weight and speed, paper colour, lighting, and many other elements. There are too many factors in play to duplicate the behaviour of real ink and pigments, but it can be simulated and there's a multitude of applications that try to do this. They vary enormously in price, complexity, input method and output quality.
Inkscape is not one of these apps. There's no intent to reproduce the look of traditional painting. However, it does provide several colour blending methods aimed at web graphic design. For example: Â
Unlike real painting, you can change how colours interact in your digital artwork. Mixing yellow and blue doesn't have to yield green. Open this drawing in Inkscape. Select the three circles. Open the Fill and Stroke dialog [shift+ctrl+f]. Change the entry in [Blend mode: XX].
Keep in mind the primary colors in pigments are red, blue and yellow; but the primary colors for light (and digital display) are red, blue and green.
Thanks for the responses, everyone.
Natural color mixing is possible in MyPaint. Something like that, or this for Inkscape would be useful.
Feel free to submit a feature request on GitLab:Â https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/
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I was fiddling around with this myself and noticed these colors don't blend like they should without a computer. It worked for creating pure light, but creating black seems to bug out.
Depends on Blend modi:
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