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@hondorondo: I'll explain this so you can easily understand. Complimentary = "Fits together well."

@nk19: First time I've ever flagged a post, and I've done it twice. I never thought I'd see shit like that here.

@hondorondo: It's understandable why you're still arguing this since you're not a native speaker, because thanks to you posting the definition, you proved my point. GG.

@hondorondo: I never said that you have to depend on complimentary contrasts. You are contradicting yourself if you are saying "complimentary colours" don't go together better than non complimentary colours. You do realize what the term, and word, complimentary means, right?

You've already been proven wrong by another Art student by the name of CrossTheAtlantic. Please stop this nonsense now. You're making yourself look like a fool.

• 1 combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another:
  

@hondorondo: When the two people in this thread that have agreed on the same theories, and both of them have studied Art (in some form) you have no grounds to say they're wrong. Clearly they're not just teaching it over here in the UK, and it's something even full Art courses teach. Get off your imaginary high horse and accept that, in this case, you are wrong.

@Sitoxity said:

@hondorondo: Thanks for explaining what you mean, I understand what you meant now. :)

You're right about the contrast, but while I was learning about design, especially in logos, we got taught about using opposites like the ones I mentioned in the colour wheel. It's not nonsense for these colours to go well together, because it's actually why a lot of these combinations exist and why they're used a lot in marketing. Battlefield 3 uses the blue and orange so much like a lot of other things because it draws attention, among other things. I was being pretty vague about it and didn't go into detail, but there is something to it. Might not be what you've been taught/learned, but it's used a lot in design and art.

Its called contrast! If you have a wall full of non complimentary colors (and no other high contrast) and somewhere in there there is a red green hitting each other you got a high contrast in hues.. what does this do? It makes your eye more ready to focus there.  There are many different ways of creating contrasts. Either with shapes, values, hues(like explained), chroma, different systems etc.   One of the basics of compositions is also to build a hierarchy of contrasts and by building that you get a path for the eyes to move.  But the contrast itself has isolated nothing to do with successful colors or not^^.  Its the relation of everything in the painting to each other that even creates the appearance of an seemingly isolated color somewhere and that makes it obvious that some miniscule thing like having a complimentary contrast of the hues isnt really giving much away about the success.  Hope I make sense^^

@Sitoxity

@hondorondo: Exactly! That's why they go together well and are used so much in art and design. :) Draws you in and makes you focus on those first.

this is kinda like the coloring-in topic

the metagame with anal^^

My IQ has probably dropped something like 50 points reading this thread. Also, it seems pretty clear that hondorondo and spiderslayerterminate are the same person, at least in the posts on this topic.

Anyway, OP is a troll and a total child, and...

@Sitoxity: You're probably the most patient person in the universe, seriously, that was some Buddha-grade Zen shit on your part.

@Sitoxity: As someone who does go to an art school, and has for some reason read this entire thread, your patience is astounding. 
 
Also you're right about color. 

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I was going to make a few points here, but it's obvious that no one here is listening to anyone here and the immaturity levels here went through the roof and if you read this thread from the start you can see the OP's slow but obvious decent into maddens paranoia, so I will just leave and pretend like I never read this thread and maybe someday my braid will be able to recover from all the stupidity and hate that is going around in here.

So true, there is no making sense of it now. This should have been locked by now.

@hondorondo: Again, not a troll, so stop it with that. You sound like a child.

Second, I have gone into detail about why contrasting colours like the ones I mentioned go together. Go read through all my posts if you don't believe me. You cannot tell me I'm wrong when it's a fundamental fact that you agreed with multiple times that they do, indeed, go well together. They wouldn't teach this in art classes if it wasn't the case.

I'm not pointing out inconsistencies if you don't see them, because honestly if you don't see them you never will.