Speaking of building the feeling of a scene through colour, I have to see what i can yet again create with the combination of colours. Using two of the characters as a canvas, i messed with their chosen colours, seeing what of three colours would portray the chosen emotion the most. This starts with Anger from the red character. Making this character, I was certain that Id know what the outcome would be. I thought having the red fella consist of a mixture of red and green would convey the anger, with them being contrasting tones. Opposing one and other on the colour wheel.
This turned out to be not true, with blue winning over, and it completely threw me. I can only theorise as to why this is the case, for me at least, as I feel some would look at the image and call me an idiot and say that green is clearly the pairing for anger. This is where subjectivity comes in to play, but both blue and red have connotations rooting to anger for me.
itself is a pretty punchy tone, jumping out, demanding attention. As colour matters puts it:
"Red is the color of extremes. It’s the color of passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure. Our prehistoric ancestors saw red as the colour of fire and blood – energy and primal life forces – and most of red’s symbolism today arises from its powerful associations in the past."
Blue on the other hand is somewhat melancholic, to myself it is a negative colour in its darker shades, linking to sadness. This pairs with anger for me because of the aspect of disappointment that comes with anger. I don't want to delve too far in to psychology here, but most anger is rooted from being let down, stemming from things not going your way. I believe this is the reason the two pair for me.
Next I wanted fear for pink fella, and I guessed correctly this time, taking my personal connotations in to account, and not just relying on positioning on the colour wheel. This time it was a pairing of green to his set pink.
"Red is the color of extremes. It’s the color of passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure. Our prehistoric ancestors saw red as the colour of fire and blood – energy and primal life forces – and most of red’s symbolism today arises from its powerful associations in the past."
Blue on the other hand is somewhat melancholic, to myself it is a negative colour in its darker shades, linking to sadness. This pairs with anger for me because of the aspect of disappointment that comes with anger. I don't want to delve too far in to psychology here, but most anger is rooted from being let down, stemming from things not going your way. I believe this is the reason the two pair for me.
Next I wanted fear for pink fella, and I guessed correctly this time, taking my personal connotations in to account, and not just relying on positioning on the colour wheel. This time it was a pairing of green to his set pink.
I knew it would be green because out of the context of nature, I see green as a colour of unease, queasy. I have a very clear/ distinctive link for this, cartoons. Ill and disgusted characters always turn a little green, or are surrounded by green hence I associate the colour with these feelings.
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