Module 2 – Portraits and Colour Theory
In this series of exercises we employ various exercises around colour theory applied to portraiture.
Given my interest in horror media, and in the foundational drawing resolved work I selected a scene from Midsommar (Produced by A24), for this series of exercises I selected a cinema still from A24’s film Hereditary.
Notably, both scenes depict a woman witnessing their partner perishing by fire, with drastically different reactions.
My goal is to use this image in the resolved works for both Module 2 and Module 3.
Warm red tonal scale for figure. Cool red tonal scale for background, mouth and eyes.
Used warm primary colours as tone. Yellow = Highlight. Red = Mid-tone. Blue = Shadows.
Background: Warm red, yellow and orange.
Figure: same colours, cool red for darkest tones.
No blending or mixing. Use variety of colours.
Warm colours on right side, red as the darkest tone, yellow as the lightest.
Cool colours on left side, blue as the darkest tone, red as the lightest.
