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| Fig 1. The Green Inferno. Dan Mumford 2014 |
I am researching in to the ways in which colour effects the way we interpret an illustration, to do this I am going to research in to Dan Mumford and his amazing illustrations.
In Fig 1 we see a piece that Dan created for Eli Roth's 'The Green Inferno', as we can see Dan uses a limited colour palette in a lot of his pieces. In this piece Dan has chosen to just use deep blood red's and pitch blacks, this creates a very dark and sinister atmosphere. Through these colours we are shown blood shed and pain, and the dark silhouettes create a ghostly outline of humans among the disasterous and distressing surroundings. Using this colour palette Dan has communicated these feelings to use so that we are drawn in to the atmosphere and understand the setting.
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| Fig 2. LV-223. Dan Mumford. |
In this piece (Fig 2) called LV-223, based on the Ridley Scott film Prometheus we have a surge of icy blues that radiate from the centre of pitch black, this colouring illuminates the vast surroundings and the tiny figures that stand below.
The blues portray a very cold and lonely atmosphere, I think this works beautifully with the vast empty landscape. As there are the only two humans in the whole area it adds to that feeling of a new alien place. A place that seems barron and empty of all living creatures, a truly terrifying idea, an idea that creates the feelings of solitude and being lonely or even lost. The colour scheme enforces this idea in a cool atmosphere, and the colouring used for the light creates the idea of how huge the planet it, and how cold and empty.
By this we can see how important colour can be to an illustration, it is a way of showing the audience what you want to show them, and manipulate their thinking so that you pull them in to the piece and make them feel the feelings created by the piece in large magnitude.
Bibliography
http://www.dan-mumford.com
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