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Rose, Thorn and Color Theoryby *AdamHughes

Cartoons & Comics / Digital Media / Comics / Other

Here's the 6 covers I did for DC Comics' ROSE & THORN miniseries several years ago. All were pen & ink illustrations colored in Photoshop.

I include them as one image because I was trying to be all long-haired & high-falutin' with my design idea: all the covers would use only red and green; a bang-on complimentary color theory.

I got the idea from going to the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. A bunch of Rockwell's SATURDAY EVENING POST covers used this amazingly restrictive palette of just red & green.

(and I know the earlier ones that were only printed with red & black inks were just as restrictive, but that is a tale for another time)

So, I tried my best to just use the colors of a red roses on these, with varying degrees of success. But a fun exercise!

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~ArtemOrlov Sep 17, 2012

Adam is KING!!!!!! ADAM IS KIIINNNGG!!!!

~wonderseek Feb 4, 2012 Hobbyist Interface Designer

great expressions

~SPITEREDESCENT Aug 24, 2011

Fantastic art work on crazy Rose and thorn

~Leoncillo Feb 5, 2010 Student Filmographer

Your images and artwork are so very inspirational. Your color scheme and line art, lighting, shading...I just look at your art and feel happiness and joy.

So thank you for sharing your hard work with the world <3

*MirkAnd89 May 25, 2009 Professional Digital Artist

I absolutely love the 2 and 4! GREAT ART!

~brunoadrego May 13, 2009

Amazing! I don't know, there's just something in the way you color that makes it unique and instantly recognizable. Which reminds me... Hey, Adam, just a quick question: I know from listening to part 1 of your Sidebar interview that you were 'taught' the basics of color theory by Brian Stelfreeze, but I just wanted to ask you, where else have you learned color theory from. You're probably mostly self-taught, but where and how did you learn to paint?

If you have the time, I'd love to see this question answered (I think it'd really help out my coloring skills if I took some of the steps you took... sorry if that sounds weird

).

Cheers

*AdamHughes May 20, 2009

Well, like any student who attended a quality school, I learned 'how to learn', so that once on my own in the real world, I could continue to gain insight from life all around me.

Basically, my take on color theory is: some color combinations look better than others, right? I just keep my eyes open for any color combinations in the real world that really create some fabulous harmony.

-AH!-