For
this assignment we had to select four pieces of concept art and pick
out what possible color schemes were present in each picture. For my
first picture I selected an image of a mechanic working on a downed
aircraft in some sort of rusty garage. The overall look is very
futuristic and would fall under the sci-fi genre. The color in this
image in my opinion is about evenly spaced. With certain tones and
shades taking over large portions of the picture. In my opinion the
red and orange hues in the picture would be the dominate colors, and
warm up the whole picture. So there's a lot of cooler colors like
blues and greens surrounding the red aircraft that sits at the center
of the picture. I think the blue and green help balance out the
warmth of the deep red and pale orange of the over head light. In my
opinion I think this picture has a tetrad scheme, because the red,
green, shades of orange and presence of blue all work together in the
overall picture.
For
my second image I choose a sci-fi bar scene, where the bartender is a
busy robot attending to a bustling mixed crowd of races. The colors
in this scene are very bright and harsh, as to mimic club lighting.
The dominant color in the this scene I would say is the bright clear
blue that surrounding the inside of the bartenders bar. The blue
color is very intense and I think the artist tried to balance this
out by placing it next to harsh red and orange lights. There are also
reoccurring green bottles throughout the scene that I thought the
artist may be using as an accent of color against the red and blue.
The last two colors to fill the top half of the concept piece are
duller shades of purple and pale orange which complement each other.
So in my opinion this piece has a mix of split complementary among
the red and blues and green, and a common complementary between
purple and pale orange.
For my third
picture, I choose another sci-fi scene. This time of a plain from
another world. In this world the sky and most of the terrain is
green, with strange green spores floating through the valley. There
are highlights of yellow throughout, hidden within mist and the
lights at the center of all the spores. In my opinion there are only
shades of green and yellow present. In this case the artist used
different shades of yellow and green to get the whole picture done. I
know that green is the dominant color present while yellow is used as
an accent. Therefore the color scheme here is Analogous, with the
main colors being yellow-green and yellow; which sit next to each
other on the color wheel.
For my last picture
I chose more of a fantasy scene. It reminds me of something you'd
find in something like Skyrim. It's a crystal cave that's colored in
many different shades of blue. On closer inspection though I
discovered that the scene was actually of another world, as there are
two faint shapes of moons in the distance. Besides rocky ice like
terrain and some spots of sky, there is a lone figure standing in the
corner of the picture. His red cape helps him stand out among the
blue. Even though the red is present I still consider this picture
dominant color to be blue. Throughout the picture there is nothing
but shades of blue, compared to the one speck of red in the corner. I
believe the overall scheme of the picture is monochromatic where
there is only one color being used in different variations of tones
and shades.
