More Colours

Right. So yesterday I was asked to make a final design so that we could get on with the work.

So onto why I chose the colours I did. Well, yesterday I was asked to go with something more green. When originally discussing the colours of the room, Johnathon made it clear he thought a green room would be disgusting. I went along with that idea, and tried to only use green as an accent colour. But then the group decided they wanted something more green, even though I had showed them something similar to what they asked me for and they didn't like it.

The problem I think we're having at the moment, especially with the colours, is decision making. I'm coming up with as much as I can, in order to give them more choice. I think I'm going to ask them to come up with their own colour choices, even though it's my job, so that we have more of a range to go with. Because this is taking forever, and I need to think about lighting.

With these colours I've tried to work more with the neutrals, adding tints and shades to them and using the main colours (with a little bit of their complement added so that the colours are less garish and don't clash), only as accents. Green is evident in each because that's what the group decided on overall. Though Alex came up with a nice idea that we could even use golds instead of greens, just to be a little bit more adventurous and not so obvious. But no one else liked this idea, so we went with the green thing. Trying to keep the group happy and all.

Final Colours

I realised today what was going wrong with my colour schemes. They were lacking, because I didn't know who I was designing for. I brought this up to the group, and we decided the Princess would be around 16 years old. My colours were also failing miserably because they were way too garish. I decided to work more with neutrals, after being inspired by a palette I saw on Kuler.com. Because we're moving on now, I don't really have much time to work any more with it, but I'm at least happy with the final. I just hope it works well with the room!

Colour Stuff

Even more colour exploration, because the pallete I made before just didn't work. It looked nice when you had the colours together as just fancy little blocks, but when you applied it to the room something was seriously off. I'm finding it damned difficult to come up with something satisfying! But here's what I've gone through today.

I tried to come up with seperate palettes for the bed and the rug and walls etc, but not having any concept to work with kind of shoots the whole damn thing to hell. I drew some concepts up and put them on the blog, but no one gave me any input so I think maybe they were crap. It's Gregory's job to come up with the concepts, but he hasn't been in in a long time and we don't have any idea what he's working on. This means that we've had to take on the role of concept artists ourself, as well as all the other roles we were assigned in the first place.

Group input is poor at the moment. Everyone is just getting on with there own thing, but no one is giving each other constructive criticism, which means things are a little bit all over the place. Not as tight as they probably should be. Hopefully it will work out a lot better soon.

Room Lighting Drawing

A simple concept of the room in light? I didn't include candles or anything just yet. The light you can see I coming from the window we decided was going to dominate the room. I haven't had time to think about the lighting much, because I've still been working so much on the colours.

Schematic

Sorry I realise how difficult the schematic is to understand... i just wanted to post the rough so that you guys could see! Will be cleaning it up on sunday. :) The princess drawings are just doodles I did at home after thinking about who the princess would be. It's really hard coming up with a colour scheme when I don't know who I'm designing for. We haven't discussed this yet.

scans

Sorry the scans are horrible.

These are bed designs I did at university today, with some of Alex's help towards the end. I think he has a really good eye for design. It's a shame he's not the concept artist! Anyway, we tried to work with the whole "pea" idea. The bed posts are shaped like pea pods, and in the final design that I cleaned up a little bit at the bottom, you can see a crown at the top of the bed, with a pea in the middle. The design was inspired by a picture of Charlottle LeBouef's room, in the Princess and the Frog art book I recently purchased.

Latest Colour Scheme

This was a challange! Mainly because I was tired and just wanted to sleep... I chose the colours based on the compliments Red and Green. Green being the accent colour, because the group decided we didn't want to go overboard with the pea idea, but we would use the green to hint at it.