Color Theory Portfolio

Team Relocation Project:

For this assignment, I was required to take an existing sports franchise and move them to a new city. We were instructed to keep the teams current mascot name, but were required to alter the team colors and logo. After a bit of research, I finally decided to move the Boston Bruins NHL franchise to Billings, Montana. Instructions for the teams logo stated that we had to create a new logo containing a letter or the initials of the new teams location. I chose to incorporate a "B" into both the primary "bears head logo" as well as the secondary "bear paw logo".

Basic announcement detailing the teams move from Boston, Massachusettes to Billings, Montana.

Breakdown of the teams new color scheme as well as it's primary and secondary logo designs.

Home, Away, and Alternate team jersey mock-ups created with a very basic "creative commons" template found online.

Closeup views of both the primary and secondary logos.

Preliminary sketches of my logo ideas. I really liked a few of the more intricate sketches that I didn't end up using, but chose to go a simpler route to make the logos easier to recognize from long distances.

Colorize an Image:

We were provided a black and white image and then required to use Photoshop to color in the image. Our main goal was to maintain a natural appearance while keeping clean lines and making sure to pay close attention to the fine details such as eyes, lips, and hair. This project took about 6 hours from start to finish.

My final completed image.

My progress at about 3/4 of the way through. The hardest part of this project was figuring out which shades of color to use for each persons clothing, while maintaining the natural look of the shadows in the image.

My progress after about an hour and half. Once I had a few of the figures colored in, the color choices became a bit easier to figure out.

Game of Phones Project:

For this project we were required to create a heraldry shield that contained a piece of current technology that we use. I had to create a color palette that reflected my feelings about the object. Here is the write-up that I was required to submit along with my project:

When creating my heraldry design, I decided to choose
the Wacom Companion Hybrid as my main source of
inspiration. I find that I am always trying to discover new
ways to work this device into my school work whenever I
can. I also use my Wacom as my primary drawing
device when I am working on my own personal illustration
projects.

For my design, I chose to use star shapes to represent
the “sparks” of inspiration I have when creating a new
digital artwork. The smaller sparks represent all of the
tiny ideas that I come up with as I begin my work. The
larger spark works in conjunction with the dark crossing
lines to represent the convergence of all of the small
ideas into one final large creation. I also decided to
include an illustration of the pen that is used on the
Wacom to help create a bit of variation within the shields
design.

My color palette consists of three shades of green set
against a contrasting yellow color. I started creating my
palette by first choosing a color that projects feelings of
creativity. For this reason I chose yellow to mirror the
creative feelings I get when working with my Wacom
tablet. In color psychology, yellow is known as a creative
color and has been shown to ellicit energetic emotions.
From there I chose a nice contrasting dark green that
kept with my cool color scheme. I then chose to use a
cool green due to it’s relaxing properties which also
mirrors my mental state when drawing. To find my other
two shades of green, I chose similarly cool colors that
complimented not only the dark green, but the yellow as
well.