Friday, December 4, 2015
Colors
I enjoyed the visual aspect of The Watchmen. The traditional use of the panel although the psychical drawing is more modern, as well as the color palette. I really enjoyed the juxtaposition between the story itself and the color palette. The story in itself is rich with suspense because of the storyline of an unknown assassin killing off the superheroes. Yet, the color palette makes the chaos comforting and the story warm. The use of complementary colors and different gradient of a color to reference different scenery. When differentiating between the the past and the present the complementary colors come into action. As well as when referencing the same scenery, the color palette remains the same for that specific panel and page. When referencing specific characters the color palette remains consistent for that individual; for example the Comedian in red, Rorschach in a mustard yellow and green gradient.
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The colors are outta control in this comic, and in the most delightful way. It's almost unclear why some panels are given one gradient, and then the next will suddenly have an entirely different color scheme, but I don't mind failing to uncover the reason because the contrast is enough to indulge in. Specifically in Chapter 5 when we see Rorschach sneaking into Moloch's abode, the panels shift between a dark green/brown scheme and a neon red/yellow orange gradient every other panel. Once we get inside Moloch's house the colors are all over the place, becoming purple and sickly green/yellow. I think that an individual character can retain some consistency, but there lack of commitment to one color scheme on a page is an attractive kind of messy that I can't get enough of.
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