Colour Variations for Farallon
- Ying Tong
- Jan 9, 2017
- 2 min read
For this post, I am going to go through the colour variations for Farallon, the final boss in my Final Year Project (FYP). Here is the sketch without any colouring:
Here are the color variations: Variation 1:
Variation 2:
Variation 3:
Variation 4:
Variation 5:
Variation 6:
Variation 7:
Final:
For the colour variations for Farallon, I did not want Farallon to have the common colours for a dragon (Black, Red, etc). I wanted Farallon to have a different kind of vibe from the usual black boss dragons. Hence, I played around with unusual colours for a dragon and tried to find colours that would compliment it. I wanted it to also have a cleaner image and have a more majestic vibe. I used many different light colours and blended them together. This allowed Farallon to have a more distinctive image. The final design came about after my group members being unable to decide between the first and second variation which led me to mix the two colours together. It was a challenge to get the few light colours to blend seamlessly and in a way that they compliment each other as I took a variety of colours to give a distinctive image so not all colours managed to blend together well. I tried to colour with complimentary colors nearby and tried to blend out from there. For example, I would colour blue at one spot, yellow at the other and green after the yellow. I would use the blue to blend with the yellow and yellow with the green and green with another colour so that it would appear more seamless but it was harder than I thought. For the fire at the back of Farallon, I used a variety of colours but I stuck to colours that were similar to each other and compliment each other. I played around with the colours for this too and had to make sure it compliments the body, while subtly standing out so that the audience could tell the difference between the body and back flame. However, I had to make sure that it is not too distracting and cause the audience to only focus on the back flame.
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