Project development: Class exercise

 In this post I will present what I created for the class exercise where we were supposed to work on one of the sketches we did yesterday and work more on it. I decided to play with color. I generally really like experimenting with color because I see color as extremely important in animation. Color palette can make people fall in love with a character if the colors are chosen correctly, or they can really make the character not very pleasing. I like to work with color hands-on, not only digitally, therefore I took this opportunity to paint with watercolors and really see how the colors are behaving. I decided to create 5 paintings of one pose I created yesterday. I wanted to observe the color and really try with it. 

Each of the painting I decided to use different colors for the dress and the hair. I decided to make them fairly similar, so for example if I was making the dress green, I would make the hair different shade of the same color of a very similar color. 

This exercise helped me to see how the character would work in different colors and which colors would feel the best. I personally like the pink/red the most because they give this character a lot of power and simply happiness. I want the character to seem happy. I want people to feel this is a happy character. I think that this is why I will go with these colors. 

Also this exercise let me play with the watercolor paint, it was a good opportunity for me to practice that and improve my skills.