Semester 1 Week 4 – Worldbuilding Concept Art ~ Colour

✨ Worldbuilding Concept Art ✨

 

As we began to focus more onto characters, I started designing some of the human/animal mutants that make up small colonies on our bioluminescent world.

I’m most happy with the design of my little angler fish girl, I wanted her to look very innocent and childish which would contrast with her angler fish mutations. (the big scary teeth!) I gave her big oversized clothes, and made her a little scruffy too, to showcase more of the world through her design. You can gather that what she’s wearing is most likely hand-me-downs, that she’s meant to grow into them, or that new clothes are scarce.

The lady in the bottom right was directly influenced by Noi from Dorohedoro, we wanted a catgirl who was super buff and Noi was the first thing that came to mind! She’s basically a copy but with cat ears and tail hehehe, I think she looks awesome though.

 

Thirdly, I wanted a more science based character, I gave dog mutations to contrast our catgirl, and her design was inspired by Beatrix LeBeau from Slime Rancher, and a little bit by April from ROTTMNT, mostly in her hair. (I think the little afro bangs are so so cute!)

Because she is interested in science, I thought it’d be really interesting to give her a prosthetic arm, something similar to Ed’s from Fullmetal Alchemist, but slightly more steampunk-esque and futuristic than medieval. I thought the story behind it could be something along the lines of her arm becoming so mutated she couldn’t use it, so she had it aputated and build herself a new one!

 

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✨ Colour Studies ✨

For the first colour excercise, I took one of my thumbnails and coloured it in an analogous palette, using lots of blues and purples. I wanted it to feel calm and safe, but also magical. I made the sky a pastel blue and the shark purple for this reason and coloured it to resemble a galaxy.

I made a night and day version, as I wasn’t sure which one captured the magical feeling the best.

I drew inspiration from Steven Universe and Bee and Puppycat for these studies! I wanted something with a lot of whimsy behind it.

 

For the studies focusing on showing mood through colour, I really wanted to do polar opposites. My first one is a lot more dark and desaturated, I wanted to create a spooky ominous and almost mystical scene with the moonbeams peeking through the clouds. The colours i used were pretty analogous, lots of cool tones.

 

For my second one, I did a lot of bright, warm pastels and used colours in a tertiary range. I also wanted the clouds to resemble cotton candy, mostly for fun but also to tie into the very cutesy bright summery theme!

I referenced the backgrounds of Steven Universe and Bee and Puppycat again, and took inspiration from Gravity Falls for the spooky themed one!

 

Finally, for my colour scripts I took screenshots from Ratatouille, Castlevania and the My Little Pony movie. I tried to capture different moods for each colour script, you can see it very clearly in my first two!

The darkness and desaturated sewer directly contrasts the bright and whimsical sunset of Paris, and they parallel Remy’s feelings in the story, going from the desolate and depressed blues to the hopeful orange glow of the Eiffel tower, and the magical purple hue of the sky as he emerges into the city of his dreams.