At 8/9/21 03:27 AM, shintsukimi205 wrote:
Kinda a first timer here, hope I did good enough!
Not too shabby for a first attempt!
I'm guilty of just doing two overlapping busts for the prompt's preview, so I'll try to avoid saying anything that amounts to "do as I say, not as I do." It's not totally necessary to do full body drawings, but the more you show, the less you'll need to tell, usually.
Your main impulse here was inversion/mirroring, which can work to a point. When the color balance for both is around 50/50 between black and white though, swapping their placement doesn't communicate all that much.
Let's break down this example - Red Ranger vs Psycho Ranger Red:
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In many ways, this is a color balance swap, but look at how much else is going on here:
-Tiered Color balance. Red Ranger had a mostly red design, with white as a secondary and black as a tertiary color. Psycho Red has black as the main, red as secondary, white as tertiary. Each has a hierarchy of colors, meaning one is more important than the others. Red Ranger's color balance communicates that he's a member of a team, but his uniqueness is important. All the psycho rangers are mostly black, signifying that they're evil first and foremost, and their separation by color is less important because their individuality is not as important.
-Shape Language. Red Ranger's design is rounder, smoother, and does less to hide his human figure so that you can identify with him as a hero. Psycho's is chunkier, more angular and made to look more demonic or inhuman.
-Rare similarities highlight the differences. Elements like the mouthpiece and belt buckle remain roughly the same shape and color to show that there is a connection, but these elements are used sparingly. It doesn't take much.
