Digital Roughs

I wanted to research which colours are associated with certain emotions so that i could use them in my final illustrations. because we are limited to 3 colours effectively it is important to use the best colour combinations to best illustrate the important characteristics of the article. I needed contrasting colours to communicate health, sickness and sadness among others.

here is a list of the information i gathered on colour theory-

• red is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
• Orange is associated with enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
• Yellow is associated with  joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. 
• Green is associated with growth, harmony, freshness, fertility, safety and money.
• Blue is associated with trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.  

The idea of colours associated with mood or emotion becomes more complicated at this point as different shades of each colour can dramatically change the effect. here are a few associations-

• Light red is associated with joy, passion,happiness and love.
• Dark orange can mean deceit or distrust.
• Gold is associated with wealth or quality. 
• Dull yellows are associated with sickness and decay.
• yellow-greens can mean jealousy, sickness and cowardice.
• dark blue is associated with knowledge and seriousness.

I tried to use different combinations of colours in the following images to see which i thought worked best and to test these linke between colour and emotion/meaning.

In the thought bubble i want to add the character looking up to someone at the top of a bigger hill.

 Although the red is more commonly used as the colour for a heart i think the yellow image communicates the feeling of happiness better.

It id difficult to colour this more complicated image using only 3 colours. I may have to use tones  enhance certain details.

I think this image may work better if I add more smoke to the background behind the large character so that he stands out more against a background of gray.

  

I have cheated in this rough sketch and used 4 colours yellow,green,black and grey. I am really struggling to find a way to somplify the colour scheme while still highlighting the key elements. The only thing i can think of is to use the same green as the money for the television screen.