Colour Palettes

Below are some colour palettes sampled from the images I used for my artist research, as well as the images themselves.

Above is a colour palette sampled from one of the images I used for my artist research, as well as the image itself. I observed that things such as much of the background and the ships are often made to look rather drab, almost monochromatic, with subtle touches of colouring in order to indicate who they fight for. The way they avoid the ships from being dull and failing to grab attention is by making them darker and bolder, and presenting them in the foreground to make sure they stand out and get noticed straight away. Thrusters will use colours associated with fire or energy, in this instance blue. Lasers and such consist of several harmonious colours, such as red, orange and yellow, with yellow being the concentrated, centre of the beam, and orange and red making the mass of it. They are usually brighter towards the centre.

Consistent with the previous image, this picture uses a dull, greyish colour scheme for the majority of the background, albeit this time with a more blueish tinge. The ship is also placed in the foreground and darkened so as to make it stand out. The explosion in the pillar at the centre of the image uses harmonious colours, similar to the lasers in the first image; yellow at the centre where it's most intense, then orange and red at the edges of the plume. The thrusters in this image are, once again, blue. The pillar is cast in shadow to make it look darker than the rest of the scenery, and is once again placed into the foreground to make sure it's seen as important.

Very different to the previous two images, this image uses a much darker, blueish tone for the background. Rather than using shadow to highlight key aspects of the image, this picture instead opts to cast the general image in shadow, giving it a much more cold and lifeless, static feel, then chooses to cast light on the parts of the image he wants to be seen. In this image, the ship in the background is illuminated. Adding to the barren and lifeless feeling of the image, nothing appears to be happening in it; whereas in the previous two images there was clearly a lot of action taking place, the first featuring a laser battle and the latter having a large and prominent explosion, as well as what appears to be one spaceship chasing another, the ship is inactive and docked in this picture. Nothing visible is moving, or even alive, giving more of an alien, unsettling feel.