Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Choosing colours for mascot

I was having quite a lot of trouble deciding between the colours for this mascot, so I decided instead to focus on what arias should be the same colours. It's interesting how just switching the arias around the shoulders from being the same colour as her torso to her sleeves changes things: I can have a bolero jacket, a high-necked dress or a waistcoat like thing. 
The one on the far right is how I ended up allocating the colours, I did do some tests for her bottom half as well but forgot to take screenshots at the time and didn't want to recreate them. It was mostly just trying to get each aria to stand out and not overlap in colour with the ones next to it anyway.


The next problem I had was there was just too much similarity between the different versions. I knew I didn't want purple skin so I ended up deciding to just create all the different versions I could using my pattern and avoiding the purple skin. 
After that I just went through my twelve colour sets and started to remove them. I decided I didn't like the white hair so removed that but otherwise it was mostly just taking two and comparing them. Originally I really wanted the green skin but unfortunately doing that left her in a more or less black and white outfit which I didn't like.... if the colour palette was just a little different I would have gone for a more interesting skin tone. I do like their chosen colours but they're hard to work with...very cold and the green and purple are very similar in darkness. 


These were my final four...I feel like more thought should have gone into picking them but there really wasn't one version out of the twelve that stood out to me so my picking method was mostly on whim.
I when with the far left one. Why? because I didn't like the black and white dresses and she felt far too plain with black hair...that is all. It also has good contrast without many arias that the green and purple competed. 
Now I just have to do the back pose.

Sorry, it's really late at night, I don't have much brain power left.

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