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Witnesses, color schemes series assignment, November and December 2024

Witnesses
Wanderers
Travelers
Here and Now
And Forever
Together

This is a series of digital abstract landscapes I sketched for a color assignment, where each piece is restricted to a specific color scheme. We had to use monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, split complementary, and double complementary color schemes while maintaining some relative continuity or common thread across the series of pieces. I chose to explore various landscapes, using various brush presets I rarely use otherwise to quickly concept strange environments and worlds. I also chose to include a pair of figures in each scene, witnessing the landscape sprawling in front of them. I didn't necessarily plan to include figures at first, but it felt like a compelling subtle narrative choice. Over the course of the assignment, the theme shifted into the relationship between these two figures, not simply witnessing but witnessing together.

Part 1 of 6: Monochromatic, Nov 28th Witnesses, Standing in front of a truck watching falling red stars streak through the sky.

Part 1 of 6: Monochromatic, Nov 28th

Witnesses,

Standing in front of a truck watching falling red stars streak through the sky.

Part 2 of 6: Analogous, Dec 3rd Wanderers, Walking through a strange environment, tendrils of light and dust floating from crimson loops as glowing beams shine from above.

Part 2 of 6: Analogous, Dec 3rd

Wanderers,

Walking through a strange environment, tendrils of light and dust floating from crimson loops as glowing beams shine from above.

Part 3 of 6: Complementary, Dec 9th Travelers, Standing on an asteroid orbiting into a cataclysmic explosion of energy jetting into space.

Part 3 of 6: Complementary, Dec 9th

Travelers,

Standing on an asteroid orbiting into a cataclysmic explosion of energy jetting into space.

Part 4 of 6: Triadic, Dec 13th Here and Now, Sitting on a hillside bench looking upon a bright natural landscape.

Part 4 of 6: Triadic, Dec 13th

Here and Now,

Sitting on a hillside bench looking upon a bright natural landscape.

Part 4: Traidic alt version with a starry night sky.

Part 4: Traidic alt version with a starry night sky.

Part 5 of 6: Split Complementary, Dec 13th And Forever, Sitting on a crystalline structure in the middle of a crater and a grove of pink trees.

Part 5 of 6: Split Complementary, Dec 13th

And Forever,

Sitting on a crystalline structure in the middle of a crater and a grove of pink trees.

Part 6 of 6: Double Complementary, Dec 8th Together. Sitting on glowing blue bone-like structures above an orange field and under a starry sky.

Part 6 of 6: Double Complementary, Dec 8th

Together.

Sitting on glowing blue bone-like structures above an orange field and under a starry sky.

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