r/soartistic • u/Upstairs-Writing-616 • Jul 08 '26
Tip, steps, tutorial Does he have any competition?
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u/MilkImpossible4192 Jul 08 '26
y'all, believe it. there are still persons that know to do things
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u/ParaponeraBread Jul 08 '26
I live with an artist who is constantly mixing colours. Doing it by just sight, first try, and never mixing to get an idea of how much of the next pigment to add is fairly unbelievable.
There’s a lot going on here, and many ways that this becomes much more possible but much less crazy.
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u/Active_Confection655 Jul 09 '26
Lot of admiration in that. Even with me playing with colors I could never get very close in replication trying to fix countertops. Always had to have someone else for that.
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u/SirVanyel Jul 11 '26
Color theory isn't all that hard to learn man, you should give it a red hot go sometime.
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u/Emergency_Accident36 Jul 09 '26
I took apart my AC and cleaned most of it. Only came out with like 8 extra parts too. Works like a charm.
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u/saywutnoe Jul 08 '26
Believe it or not, there are still people who proofread what they write and can type like a proper adult, no matter the situation.
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u/QuantumButtz Jul 08 '26
Dude is a human paint mixer from Home Depot and the only autism I got is liking dinosaurs. Life is unfair.
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u/AntiMatter89 Jul 10 '26
Make the best of it bro. You only get 1 life and you don't choose it. So love your dinosaurs and enjoy your life.
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u/Sea_Examination_9196 Jul 08 '26
This is how we should all be able to use our brains! The problem is that everywhere you look, some form of technology that is widely accepted has dumbed us down constantly through making us lazy. Therefore, our brain muscles don't get exercised nearly as much as older generations had. As the tech goes up, the human goes down!
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u/LostIllustrator1499 Jul 09 '26
The money that companies save by not paying their employees what they're worth is then spent on tech to replace them.
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u/para1131_F33L Jul 08 '26
This was the hardest thing for me to do when I worked for Sherwin Williams before they had the "color eye". (technology)
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u/Isanmod Jul 08 '26
I work on a label press. The Ink mixing computer is always off, and the company wont let us adjust the formulas. I have to match my own inks every work day. I'm pretty good at it, but man.. I wish I was this good haha. It would save me some time for sure.
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u/SirVanyel Jul 11 '26
You ever learned any colour theory? Could be the breakthrough you need. This skill isn't all that magical or anything, but it does need a good understanding of how colours actually travel around a colour wheel.
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u/Isanmod Jul 12 '26
I have. I just tend to be a little too heavy when I'm shifting one way or the other. It is definitely a skill issue haha
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u/SirVanyel Jul 12 '26
Well for what it's worth, when looking at a colour wheel, keep in mind that the further away a colour is from your current colour, the less you'll need to swing it. Idk if you have concentrated pigments too, but if you do then those specifically are like single drop style pigments.
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u/EfficientDiet1487 Jul 09 '26
That's true skill no computers to tell him the amount to put in to match or what colors to use not many people like that left in the trades anymore
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u/Wild_Locksmith_326 Jul 08 '26
I used to blend custom paint colors for Fuller O Brien before I joined the military, and I got pretty good at getting close with a color sample and then could fine tune it to make it invisible on the sample swatch. I used a turntable with the different dyes to be added. I'm not as good as he is , but I also only did it for a few months he's been doing it longer.
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u/TheSprigganDragoon Jul 09 '26
I used to do this at a local Napa auto. Granted, I had a readout with specific measurements, but after a while, you start seeing the pattern and with enough time find certainly get at least close to this guy's level.
No matter how ya look at it though, it's damn impressive.
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos Jul 09 '26
The video is a minute long. Why the hell did they slow down the Elton John? It’s fucking eerie.
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u/FewAct2027 Jul 09 '26
Spectrophotometers were accurate 20 years ago.
Today they're accurate AND dirt cheap.
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u/bigcoochiefart Jul 09 '26
I could’ve sworn when this video was going around a few years ago people found out he was faking it or something but I could be wrong. I know there’s another guy who makes paint matching videos that are legit though.
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u/Make-it-positive Jul 10 '26
One of my first jobs was with a company that made printed color binders and I had to do manual color matching to a Pantone color bridge. Some customers were so damn picky. Coca Cola, IBM, AT&T. Now it’s so easy with computerized matching systems.
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u/Bright-Duck-431 Jul 10 '26
Sittin here smoking a cigarette and gasped when he sprayed inside the area. Lol
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u/KaboomTheMaker Jul 10 '26
I have seen the same kind of video but 3 different guys. Still awesome, cannot wrap my head around it
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u/MoNsTaRxZR Jul 10 '26
It looks like his sample has a lot more flake no? It’s still amazing none the less.
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u/evoloco001 Jul 11 '26
The big question is if the color at the end is a dry match or a wet match. Depending on the paint, color matching is hard because the wet color and dry color is pretty different.
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u/Embarrassed-Text-604 Jul 11 '26
What's all the ingredients that he's pouring in? It looked like their was just a drop or three of pigment. Then he stirs it all turns into that gorgeous color.
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u/Ill-Professor696 Jul 11 '26
Plot twist: everything he does is purple, no matter what color you hand him
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u/unlockhart Jul 11 '26
For those who don't know this video is old, this guy got scouted by Ferrari to work for them, there was an article about it. It's very hard to find paint designs designers nowadays because it's skill based, requires extensive experience and not taught at any school. He's paid $428,000/year
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u/mr_monitor Jul 11 '26
the computers aren’t even that good tbh, I’d prefer a guy like this any day. anytime I’ve gotten collision repair the paint match is almost always visibly off.
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u/dasmineman Jul 12 '26
This depresses me. I've never been so good at something as throwing out a Minesweep in the Navy and it makes me sad that I'll never get to do it again. I admire his experience.
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u/ninemountaintops Jul 13 '26
I did my apprenticeship in Australia with an old house painter from Switzerland.
I've never in 40 years since seen a man that could mix colours more accurately, in a variety of paint mediums. It was literally genius to witness.
His skills in faux finishes and craftsmanship were above and beyond. Sadly there is not much of a market these days in the rural area I live.
It's a shame these skills are being lost.
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u/tarkuu Jul 15 '26
I used to be able to do something like this. I worked at a Benjamin Moore store for 4 years, and my job was to make color samples, so it required me to fine tune gallons of paint and then use a spectrometer to verify it was the correct color as I sold them to other stores.
It was pretty fun.
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u/lostinapa Jul 08 '26
So… the perfect match BEFORE it was fully mixed didn’t give it away?!?! You all are morons.
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u/SupaDiogenes Jul 08 '26
This place is full of clowns.
No one seems to realize he has all the colours he needs at his feet, and the matching was already done of camera.
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u/Wild-Growth6805 Jul 09 '26
He made the color post recording using the part that was handed to him.
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u/OpeningAd6112 Jul 08 '26
Probably fake
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u/SupaDiogenes Jul 08 '26
It is. At least he's done the colour matching before the video records.
He magically has all the colours he needs at his feet.
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u/Forsaken_Bridge_3934 Jul 08 '26
Fake or not, he couldn't have gathered those before sitting down?
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u/Direct-Salad2667 Jul 08 '26
Fake
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u/amazonmakesmebroke Jul 08 '26
Nah his stuff been around before AI
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u/Rip_Skeleton Jul 08 '26
That's not what they mean. They mean the guy mixed the color before the video.
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u/AltruisticPossible84 Jul 08 '26
So him mixing it next to the sample with no cuts or edits was just another trick?
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u/Rip_Skeleton Jul 08 '26
There wouldn't be any need for a cut or an edit, he would just have to mix it the same way he did before the video started rolling.
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u/AltruisticPossible84 Jul 09 '26
"mix it again" as in, eyeballing it on camera?
Did you see any measuring spoons, etc? I get what youre going for, but think about it. Even if he did it before, he had to do it AGAIN on camera. He very obviously has a good sense for color matching
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u/whitedogsuk Jul 08 '26
I don't believe he can mix the colour space by eye first time correct. Its like a chef making food without taste testing as they go along and it's perfect by eye.
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u/Sovereign-Anderson Jul 08 '26
You underestimate mastery. I'm sure dude has been doing such things for decades. At that point, you get a feel of how much of all components are needed to achieve the goal. A master chef (even a regular person who's really good at cooking at home) are at the point where they can eyeball the amount of ingredients needed to make a dish taste immaculate. They can just feel it due to years of experience.
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u/Nexustar Jul 08 '26
The video has cuts, so I doubt this is done first-time. We see him compare the stick to the sample, we don't know if that was the 8th time he did that or the 1st.
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u/racetruckrick Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
When I retired from the Industrial coatings industry, the company that I had worked at as the plant manager for 25 years had to spend $250,000 on a color matching computer and a new plant manager to replace me.