This week we had an in-depth look at the concept of colour theory, various terminologies surrounding it, and how it is applied in the pipeline of creating art. There was a lot of things to go over in this topic as colour is one of the most important areas of creating art, as it is one of the first visual aspects of the pieces that viewers will notice immediately, if not the first. Here we went over things such as different types of colour schemes (Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, and Triadic), how the colours can determine/convey the intended emotions in a scene, and colour scripts in relation to a story and how they fit the scene.
Afterwards we were given a task to add colour to a specific scene using a colour palette to convey a specific emotion. the scene provided is an open field area with a river and rocks scattered throughout, therefore there will be a lot of areas where I will need to differentiate which colours I will choose, while still making sure to keep it in a strict colour palette. Below is my first attempt, I chose a colour palette using an analogous scheme, ranging mostly of greens and blues, however for the rocky structures I elected to go for an orange/tan colour to add some visual contrast. I hoped that this colour palette conveys a sort of hopeful feeling to the viewer, as the scene somewhat looks like a sunrise, which I believe perfectly matches the theme of hope as a sort of “starting something new” type of feeling. In order to find a good way to place all of these colours in this scene in a way that fits i looked for inspiration from other sources too, particularly i found it quite similar to a major setting in the Dragon Ball Z series, “Planet Namek”. The events that take part in this setting, without delving too deep, also match with the theme of hope so I believe makes it even more of a perfect match for the setting. Overall I am happy with the colour scheme I have chosen and I feel great with how it turned out in the end.
For the second attempt I decided to go in a completely opposite direction from the emotions conveyed in the previous attempt and go for a more gloomy-feeling emotion with a much more depressing tone. for this attempt I once again used some blues and greens, however these colours were a lot less saturated to give it a damper look and as I believe the less saturation/more colour drained feels like there is life drained from the colours which represents perfectly what I am trying to show with this colour palette. This is also an analogous colour scheme, but without the contrasting complimentary colours as I also feel like the contrast from the complimentary colours in the previous one made it feel more colourful and vibrant which I was trying to tone down from this attempt. It was a lot more simple to get inspiration for the colour scheme for this part of the activity as the gloomy mood in the colour palette perfectly matches the weather of my home in Ireland so I looked at it for inspiration. Overall I am very happy with how both of the outputs for this activity turned out.
Finally, at the end of this lesson the groups were once again switched about at random for the final time and out of sheer luck, I was reunited with most of my former teammates from the first group, while still in the Underwater world project. At this point those remaining in my group from the underwater world had to give an explanation on the idea for this world and had to catch the others up to speed while still progressing work in creating this world.