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  Color while often overlooked by the average viewer, sets the tone for everything we see in our daily lives, from billboards to magazines to the colors that make up our roads. Humans perceive colors differently and associate them with … Continue reading →

The use of color is everywhere and color has different meaning in the way different people use color o view color in their work and in the world. In the book “Graphic Design the New Basics” by Ellen Lupton and … Continue reading →

This page from the graphic novel “What it is”, is a great visual example to discuss the interaction of multiple colors. The repetition of the colors shown in this visual is a great representation of a palette. This is shown thoroughly in … Continue reading →

Color plays an important role in not only art and images, but in life as a whole. Color relies entirely on perception, changing based on a person’s social and cultural exposure. Color is a design aspect that can alter the entire … Continue reading →

  The use of color on these two pages from The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba helps with understanding what is happening in the scene or general frames (The large ones.) Also the use of color gives us … Continue reading →

This page from Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen uses color particularly well. First, I noticed the contrast in saturation and hue between the top three frames and the other frames. The top left frame shows depicts a mostly red palette accented … Continue reading →

  Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty is such a vibrant and colorful graphic novel that there are many wonderful examples of how hues interact with each other. Hues are the specific place on the spectrum where the color is. … Continue reading →

This comic uses two of the primary colors, red and blue.  Almost everything in this page of Black Panther has a red hue to it.  The sky is red instead of blue, the clouds have a light red tint to … Continue reading →