As I was creating the illustration, I was thinking about what colors I should use. The topic is BLM so I wanted to go complementary colors because I wanted to show little bit of tense due to contrasting colors but I would use one of those color to guide the focal point of the piece. So the colors I went with was yellow and purple with the third color red. The purple was for the black panther because when I looked up references for a black panther, that color is the one that usually came up which I think went well. I used the yellow for the frames of the glasses to symbolize the level of sophistication. By using this yellow for the frame of the glasses, it guides the eyes toward the main focus of the illustration. The handcuffs lead you toward the panther being choked by it. This expresses the idea of police brutality toward color people. I used an asymmetrical composition
Recent Comments