Colour schemes

Using this draft, I scanned it into photoshop and adjusted the threshold. This made the image pure black and white.


Monochromatic colour scheme

I then started to colour individual bits to my design.

Here is the end result. Within this monochromatic example I have used the colour green. I chose this colour to have relevance to my book as it is based by the riverbank and the woodlands. I think this colour scheme works really well, this is because my final design is going to be a cut out so very little colours will be used in my final piece but I will definitely be using the colour green.

Complementary colour scheme

I wanted to include the colour green within all my colour schemes because it is the colour that I believe has most relevance to my subject matter. Green and red are complementary colours so I decided to use these two colours for the complementary colour scheme. I used a mixture of warm and cool reds and also a mixture of warm and cool greens to balance it out. Overall I think that this colour scheme looked good apart from the red didn't have a big relevance to my subject matter.

Analogous colour scheme

For my analogous colour scheme I decided to use the colours green, blue and yellow. I thought these where a good choice of colour as they all have relevance to my subject matter. The yellow could represent the sun or bright yellow flowers, the blue represents the water in the rivers and pond and rain. And the green represents all the greenery you find in a woodland. However, I do think that three colours are too much for my design as I just want one simple colour used in my final piece.

Triadic colour scheme

The colours I used for my triadic colour scheme were green, yellow and orange. I thought these colours together looked awful and made my design look terrible. I would definitely not use this in my final piece because all the colours clash, and it isn't very easy on the eye.