Blog 8b

For this blog assignment I will be critiquing the Hero/Villain drawings of my classmates.

Adrian and James http://www.adrianraves.blogspot.com/

Adrian and James's characters were Eric Williams and some sort of Bank robber.  Williams is the hero between the two, while the robber is the villain.  The drawings have a contrast of hue and brightness.  Williams has bright yellow as his main color, while the robber has black and a saturated purple.  This contrast makes it easy to distinguish who is the hero and who is the villain.  The robber's mask and frown on his face also symbolize that he is the villain.  Since Williams is standing up tall and proud, it is easy to tell that he is the hero, while the hunched over robber is obviously the villain.  These two characters contrast each other perfectly, allowing the viewer to picture a conflict to between the two without even hearing any sort of back story on them.

Andrew and I http://awid7.blogspot.com/

My partner Andrew and myself also decided to use Eric Williams as a hero, but we contrasted him with Darth Cooper, the evil incarnation of Media professor Roger Cooper.  We emphasized shadows to show the characteristics of our hero and villain.  I gave Cooper a lot of shadowing on his face to symbolize that he was dark and evil.  Another key symbol was the lightsabers.  Anyone who has seen Star Wars knows that the red lightsaber is for villains and the green lightsaber is for the jedi.  Even if you haven't seen Star Wars, these colors can subconsciously represent good/evil.  We also thought that the Star Wars theme would give these characters a fun mood, since we didn't want to actually imply that Coop is evil (cause everyone loves Coop doggy Dogg).

Jordan and Lena http://lena229508.blogspot.com/

Lena and Jordan's characters were Lighty and the Boogie Clown.  Lightey is a night light who saves young children from the scary boogie clown while they are sleeping at night.  What I liked about their characters was the obvious contrast of symbolism; its obvious that the glowing night light represents good while the dark clown represents evil.  As a child, everyone experiences a fear of the dark and monsters in their closet, so I thought that it was a good idea to have a night light be the hero, because night lights are our heroes when we are children.  The brightness of Lighty is what makes him stick out, while the saturated colors of the Boogie Clown are what gve him his evil appearance.  Lena and Jordan also contrasted hue colors, with Lighty using yellow and the boogie Clown using blue and red on its cap.