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9 months ago

Was reading through my notes when i stumbled apon this lil gem of me explaining to my imaginary audience on why and how i use colour in my characters

Colours:

Elysian has two main colours in her colour palette to help show her personality visually. One colour that shows how she presents herself and the other to show her inner personality, if that makes sense. These colours are pink and orange. The orange isn’t really prominent in her human form but i’ll get into that later. Let’s talk about pink. The first colour you see on Elysian’s character is pink, pink on her clothes, bag, shoes, gloves. Pink normally gives people the feeling of femininity, love and care. Now this is good because thats what Elysian is like, loving and caring and can be seen to be quite feminine, maybe not in the standard, traditional way, but elysian is girly, she likes wearing makeup, dressing up and having a good time. So pink naturally suits her and is her outer colour, the way she wants to be perceived. But then theres orange. Orange isn’t seen as much as pink in her human form, mainly only in hers eyes, but that was on purpose (totally). It shows the more unseen and kept emotions that Elysian doesn’t show immediately. Like they say “the eyes are the door to the soul.” Elysian cant fully hide those emotions so they’re shown in her eyes. Orange is interpreted as an optimistic and confident colour. Why Elysian choses to hide that part of her? I don’t know, she just does, i’ll do more some more in-depth thinking when i want to. But where orange is seen more on Elysian is when she’s in her goddess form. Orange surrounds her. Her eyes, the tattoos under elysian’s gloves and clothes and the eye pin in her hair and the eye embroidered in her shirt glow orange in that from. Basically revealing the confidence and optimism she hides deep down in her human form. Orange is more about her inner personality.

Can’t believe i stopped doing this it makes sense to me!!

(I mean yea its just primary and secondary colour but still!!)


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