Colour Wheel and Illustrations

For this workshop we learn the different range of colours that we could created ourselves without using pre mixed colours. I already knew the primary colours that are yellow, red and blue and the secondary colours that are orange, green and purple. The colour wheel highlights the different tones you can get by adding more or less of one of the primary colours. 

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I learnt about tertiary colours as I hadn't heard of this before. Unfortunately my red was very dark, resulting in my browns being very similar. However from other peoples colour wheels I learnt that orange and blue made lighter browns, yellow and purple made orchards brown colours and red and greens made sienna brown colours. 

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We had to take a book that we could create three illustrations based on the text. I chose Romeo and Juliet as it's a famous play and there are so many different interpretations of the book I wanted to create my own one. 

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For my first illustration I used a blue background that gradually got lighter and red typography for the initials of Romeo and Juliet. The font was old english font as the book dates back to 13th Century. I liked to font of this the best as I drew it freehand and I think it was successful. However to improve I could have made the background colours blend better to have a smoother effect.

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For my second illustration I drew a line of hearts, one row full and one row broken. I did this as Romeo and Juliet is a romance, however it doesn't have a happy ending. I chose a brighter red for the full hearts and this connotes romance, love and happiness, however the broken hearts I used a crimson red which is deeper to connote heartache, passion and death linking to blood. In the background I wrote out the passage of when Romeo and Juliet first meet in Act One Scene Five. However as this scene goes on Romeo discovers that Juliet is a Capulet and that they cannot be together which links to the broken hearts. I think this would have looked better if I printed to text first as then the text would have been even and clearer to read.