Deconstructing Characters

I chose a saturation of purple for my character because like the colors red and blue, there are different things that bring my character to life. Before she became a hero, she was supposed to be a CEO but missed her promotion meeting because of the villain. The purple shows what she could have been, 'royalty' or in a 'higher power'. She has the darker shades of purple to show a kind of dark or angry side because she lost her normal life at the hands of the villain. Like the colors used in construction zones, her accents are orange to represent caution. 

There are not many shadows on the hero, and you can barely see any. That is because she likes to be on the move and not in the spotlight. She is always going somewhere so no one can ever see her long enough to 'shine a light' on her. She is lit in a natural light, which shows her as a 'normal' person and throws off the 'superhero' status. There is no complex lighting around her; she is simple. The searching spotlights shown above show that she is hard to find standing around. 

I chose a zig zag pattern pared with straight edges for this character because the zig zags show speed and the straight edges show that she is also conserved and professional. Or she tries to be. Her straight shape is more aerodynamic than lots of twists and turns; which comes in handy when she wants to be on time. Though the two don't seem to go together, both zig zag and straight edges work together to form a working character that looks like she could be a normal person by day and a hero by night. 

This is Convenient Girl.

(the hero)

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The villain's color scheme is kind of a bland, boring blend of colors. That represents the way he goes about inconveniencing things for everyone -- he never puts in any real effort into his 'evil' doings. Like the company, UPS, that uses brown as their main color, it is easy to keep clean -- he doesn't want to do any work if he doesn't have to. The color brown, referring to auras, is said to be when businessmen are in it only for greed and money, like the villain who just wants to be mean to people. 

There is a hard light coming from the right corner of the picture, shining on the villain. His hair is sticking out a little, which casts a shadow across his face. This offsets the thought that he is an evil villain, where in reality he is a mediocre one.  The hero had no 'spotlight', so she had no shadows, like she didn't have anything to hide. While this villain has shadows cast on him, which makes you think he has something to hide. Like in the picture above, you can't really tell if a person standing under the light would be a good guy, or a bad guy -- it could go either way.

I chose this awkward shape because, again like the villain, he is an awkward man. He doesn't fit into the stereotype of a 'normal' villain. He tries his hardest to be an evil-doer but all he does is make himself look foolish. There is no real threat to anyone at the hands of him, even though he may look a little menacing, it's all a show; a facade. A quadrilateral can be many different shapes, but really they are just trying to fool you into thinking they are something else than what they really are -- they're the same. 

This is Minor Inconvenience Man 

(the villain)