I was very excited to do this project for multiple reasons. The main reason though was because of the clear mental image I had of how I wanted to portray the color wheel. As someone who works with character designs and storyboarding, I think a lot about the emotions I want to set for different characters, scenes, and interactions in the story and a lot of that has to do with color. Even changing the color of a characters hair can cause a shift in how the viewer sees them, and that’s true even in real life when people dye their hair different colors to create a “mood” or “image” that’s more them. I chose to take each color and study it for the emotion that it is known to portray and even though the same color can represent multiple emotions especially if you change the saturation or value, I chose to stick to basic ones that were very familiar so I could create a simple and concise message with every character and have the most diversity of emotions possible. Of course inspiration for the hair came from myself and even though I could have chosen to color the shirt or the individual backgrounds instead, I felt that it showed a more unique way of showing a character “surrounded” by the associated color/emotion while still keeping the color to a small, neat area.

Time spent: 1 hour 30 mins