Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Spots of Color
In terms of composition, Osamu Tezuka has some of the best work we have seen so far. While the art is monochrome and black and white, the spots of color are used in order to help move the eye around the page. This makes the art within the panels visually appealing, as well as making the entire page. More often than not, the color spots fall on or around the intersecting lines that represent the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds divides the composition into thirds horizontally and vertically. The intersections of these lines create the four hot spots where our eyes are most often go in a composition. This is where the color falls most often. So while Tezuka did not have a wide color palette, he used his colors in an incredibly effective manner.
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You raise a very interesting point regarding the rule of thirds. I agree that Tezuka uses the colors in an effective manner since I also found it easier to navigate through the panels with the colors. Without the color spots, I would have read the book in a much slower pace.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I would like to make a point that the color spots could have been used as a "highlighting" tool, putting colors on objects that are significant to the story line. Although this would have contradicted the effect of the rule of thirds, I think it would have led to an interesting emphasis on the story line.