Thursday, April 05, 2007

Image Essay #11



Another Naruto fan art by Ore-sama. What I find interesting about this piece is how she uses different hues of red with black and white. For the background it looks she made good use of different chromatic values of the color red.

I kind of like how the artist made the characters black and white, but kept the blood red. Black and white kind of gives the feeling like time has stopped. Like it just froze on that moment. I don't think this piece would have as much impact if it were all black and white. Same for if the characters were colored. The use of red really brings more to the image.

Red and black are normally associated with blood and death. One thing that's interesting about this piece is that there is some use of pink in the background, and pink is a color that is not normally associated with death. In yet somehow it still works with image. I don't think the image would have as much impact if the background was one solid hue of red.

Shading is used to make the characters three-dimensional. But they since to stick out more because the gate in the middle ground is two-dimensional. It's solid black except for one area towards the bottom that looks gray. It looks like the lighting is only on where the characters are.

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