Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Week 8 Application (Blog) Exercise: Tone and Color




This is a favorite poster of mine.


a) Tone is operating in this example because of the black almost "negative" figures. The way it’s placed shows us where the calf muscle is on the front left surfer. It also communicates to us witch surfer is closer and witch is further away, and tone is helped shown in the shadows of the figures in the sand.


b) Tone is interacting with shape most interestingly in this poster. The tone depends on the shape, we would be clueless as to what was what because this picture lacks any depth by color for us.


c) Color is operating in this example by giving us the only information on what time of day it is and what it-taking place. We know its sunset at the beach because of the overlapping orange sand over the yellow setting sun, casting a pink sunset. It’s as simple as it gets.


d) Color of this poster is interacting with balance most interestingly for me. Because of the % of the colors used to take up the space, the pink, being more dominant has less of it, with the black on the less dominant orange keeps it from popping out to much. And the yellow is a nice centering balance for us. And even though there are two figures on the right the one figure balances them out by being larger (because it is closer).

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