Huevember

Huevember is a monochromatic art challenge held every November. The challenge is introduced by a French artist & illustrator Matthieu Daures on November 2014.

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1 History

2 Etymology

3 Inktober vs Huevember

4 Rules

5 Back to Basics

6 Instructions

7 Examples

8 Social Media

9 References

History

Huevember is introduced in November 2014 by a Frenchman named Matthieu Daures, a student of animation at Gobelins, one of the most prestigious art schools in France along with Ecole de Beaux Arts. Daures & his friends has tried Inktober, so he decided to make his own art challenge called Huevember. Unlike Inktober, which is achromatic (or simply black-&-white), Huevember is colored in a single hue with saturation, which is known as monochromatic art.

Etymology

Huevember = Hue + November.

Inktober vs Huevember

Five years after an American illustrator Jake Parker introduced Inktober in October 2009, Matthieu Daures started Huevember after he & his friends experienced Inktober. The difference between Inktober & Huevember is that Inktober is illustrated in black & white during the entire month of October, while Huevember is drawn in one color of a day during the month of November. Based on the color wheel, the first day with Huevember starts with yellow & the last day ends with yellow-green.

Rules

Each artwork & illustration must be based on the given color per day. On the color wheel, the first day starts with yellow until the last day ends in yellow-green. For example, the artwork must be colored in red only, with saturation, on the ninth day & the artwork must be colored in aquamarine only, with saturation, on the twentieth day. In simple words...

One artwork per day.
One main hue (with saturation) of the day per day
It can either be made traditionally (i.e. with colored pencils) or digitally (i.e. with Clip Studio Paint)
Tag with #huevember.

Back to Basics

Recall that color is one of the seven elements of art, along with line, space, form, shape, & texture. Without color, it makes the artwork look dull & hollow.

Color has three dimensions:

Hue simply means the color. They are based from the seven colors of the rainbow, namely: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, & violet.
Value, also called luminance, is the lightness & darkness of the hue, using white & black, respectively. There are three types: tint (whitening or lightening), tone (graying), & shade (darkening).
Saturation is the intensity of the color. In a simple definition, it brightens &/or dulls the color, depending on the amount of hue. For example, if blue is darkened with black, it becomes indigo. If blue is lightened with white, it becomes aquamarine or cyan.

The dimensions of color are easily represented in the Munsell color system, created by an American artist named Alfred Munsell (1858-1918). In his modified color system, the axis is the color value, the wheel is the hue, & the slices are the saturation of each colors.

Instructions

When doing Huevember traditionally:

Choose your coloring instrument. It can be watercolor, colored pencils, or alcohol markers.
Choose the colors of the desired coloring material based on the color wheel made by Daures. This can be tricky, especially if the artist is color blind.
Imagine what to draw based on the color.
After sketching & inking the linework of the drawing, color the drawing using the assigned hue of the day, with saturations. The method of saturation depends on each coloring instrument.
Post the finished work and tag #huevember.

When doing Huevember digitally:

Choose your drawing software. It can be Paint Tool SAI, Clip Studio Paint, etc.
Drawing tablets are easier than a mouse. It can be Wacom or Huion.
On the desired draing software, use a droplet tool to pick the exact color on the color wheel made by Daures. It is easier than traditional.
After base sketching & linework, color the drawing using the assigned hue of the day, with saturations. The method of saturation is done using the color box included in a drawing software.
Post the finished work and tag #huevember.