This week, I was moved into a different group: Group 8. This group’s world was based on the idea of the aftermath of the Gods fighting leaving the world in disarray, with chaotic, uninhabitable weather forcing the surviving humans to retreat underground. The protagonist, a human tasked with venturing above ground, is in search of medicine since the community’s supplies are dwindling. Adapting to the new group and story when I had gotten used to the previous one was challenging, but I was able to adjust once I knew the story.
We were given a piece of uncoloured line art and tasked to colour it in two different ways to convey different moods and emotions, as we had learned previously in the class about the varying connotations of colours and how they’re used in cinematography and art to make the viewer subconsciously feel or interpret an emotion. I decided to colour one with warm, soft colours, suggesting a peaceful sunrise, and the other with dark, cold colours to suggest a stormy and unstable night. This was a cool exercise and it was fun to experiment with different colours on the same base.
We were also shown how to use Adobe Colour to create and find colour palettes, and then challenged to create 5 potential palettes for our world. Since the story and setting are intended to be quite dark and desolate, I opted for a variety of dusty, desert-like palettes as well as dark, lightning-inspired ones. After gathering 5, I also put together a new unique palette combining some of my favourite components from the others.
Then, we got to go out and take pictures of colour palettes we could find out and about. We got pictures of subjects that could be colour picked to create monochrome, analogous, and complementary colour palettes.
Finally, we were asked to revisit our tone and value study from last week and use the colour palettes we’d created today to give it colour. I used just about every palette I had created, and I found it fascinating how easily the atmosphere and implications of the same image could be changed through colour. My personal favourites are the first two images below.
