Sketching and Drawing for Animation - Week 3
AND141 Sketching and Drawing for Animation
2nd Semester
Week 3
In the third class of the second semester Sketching and Drawing for Animation course AND141, we started learning color. To begin, we used color pencils and focused first on only using one color (monochromatic), then slowly expanded our palettes to either analogous, triadic, or complimentary schemes.
Exercise 1
Prompt: Write an emotion you feel when walking through a forest or park. Then pick a random paper that you didn't write. Choose one color that in your mind represents the given emotion and draw a composition inspired by it.
My given emotion was Fear / Trauma. In response, I chose a strikingly bright red pencil, and black, medium grey, light grey, and white to create dimension without switching hues.
Definitions
Hue - the color of paint as it appears out of the tube, unmixed.
Value - relative lightness or darkness of a color.
Tint - a color that has been lightened by adding white.
Shade - a color that has been darkened by adding black.
Saturation - intensity of the color.
Tones - a color that has been lightened or darkened by adding grey.
Warmer (closer) - Cooler (away)
Color Schemes:
- Monochromatic
- Complimentary
- Striking contrast
- One color dominates, the other is supportive
- Split-complimentary
- Contrast, but less tension
- Analogous
- Enhance the mood of the scene
- Express emotions
- Triadic
- Double-complimentary / Rectangle-tetradic
- Double split-complimentary / Pentagonal
- Side-complimentary
- Square-tetradic
Exercise 2
Prompt: Depict the items with triadic color.
A still-life was set up in the middle of the classroom for the students to observe and draw using triadic colors. I chose the basic triadic scheme of the primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. I also used black, grey, and white.