I just had a revelation.
Well, it's 3 a.m. and I got lots of revelations this time of night, but anyway...
Regarding that bright red in J'onn J'onzz's costume. Let's take out that red and replace it with a color more analogous to green, shall we?
Ignore the purple halos around the medallions, please...that was an accident.
Compare with the original:
Ow! My eyes!
Okay, so I darkened the cape a little and tried the make the medallions silver (gray, really), just to see how that would look:
Now he matches my blog's color scheme!
I'll probably start playing around with the Black Lantern costume, but for that I'll have to bust out the pencil and paper, so that'll actually take some effort....
6 comments:
Definitely an improvement. I've done dozens of test costumes/color variations for J'Onn, and it's tricky business. I really liked him in white, but basically looked like Pulsar Stargrave, and it didn't suit a detective at all. I refused purple because those were Drax the Destroyer's colors. Well, not for many years it isn't, and it looks good on the original. That or dark blue's the way to go.
Thank you. I know. It's not as easy as I thought it would be, plus I was never very good with color theory.
Maybe silver straps? Like they did in the Black Lantern costume. Silver, green, dark blue might work. I'll have to start playing around with the Black Lantern costume next.
Call me set in my ways, but red and green is just soo right. That said, I'll deal with changes when they come. I'm not much of a visual artist, so beggars can't be choosers, or something.
You know, m.c., if they actually do get rid of the red, I'll probably wing up being the first one to cry foul, because I'll wind up missing it only after it's gone. I honestly can't make up my mind about what exactly his costume should look like--just no full bodysuit (and no conehead) is all I'm set on.
I'm usually the guy who says, "make so-and-so's costume a darker shade."
Although, I don't necessarily have a problem with J'onn's red bands, I really love your purple re-colouring. Not every hero has to have red and blue in their costume...
Green's just tough to compliment, I think. That's why I like the GL costume--they compliment green with "non-colors," black and white. So sharp.
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