Q&A for How to Draw a Color Wheel

There are 12: three primary colors, three secondary colors and six tertiary colors.

Red and blue only have one basic color between them, and complement each other nicely. Pink is a shade of red, and those two make for an amazing color palette.

You would first draw a 6-pointed star to the best of your ability (the use of a ruler may help). Draw faintly and don't use a mechanical pencil as you will want to erase the star later on. You would then draw circles at each point. Again, try to make them to the best of your ability and roughly the same size. You would then pick a circle and color it in red, skip a circle, blue, skip a circle, yellow. Then in the circle in-between red and blue, you would color it purple, because red and blue make purple. Green goes between blue and yellow, and orange between yellow and red. After you have colored in all your circles with the assigned colors, erase the 6-pointed star.

Try to layer primary colors in order to create new ones. This all depends on what you're using, though.

You may start with the three basic primary colors: blue, red, and yellow. Then, you can start overlapping the colors; this works, due to the fact that the primary colors are what makes up the color wheel. You may then use more combinations to create other colors.

Add white or black if the color isn't the right shade. If you're making colors like yellow-green or red-orange, mix the two colors that are in the name.

The warm colors are red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and yellow. The cool colors are yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, violet, and red-violet.

A color wheel must have the primary and secondary colors for it to be complete. Many color wheels have the intermediate colors, but they do not have to. Colors like coral, for example, are not needed in a basic color wheel.

As long as you have the three primaries and the three secondaries, it should work out fine by using these six colors alone.