King of Gold

Personal Thoughts

• Symbolism:
• The glowing light source from the centre of the image placed over the mouth of the king stands for the power and strength of his word. 
• The golden crown further supports the idea of the kings power and wealth.
• I chose small eyes as the king does not necessarily see all, or maybe he just doesn't want to see some things.
• Overall strong emotive piece of art.
• The impression and mood of this art piece is threatening and hostile, despite yellow as a base tone for the image.
• This is due to the low saturated background and the implementation of the two complementary colours red and green which turn the images yellow into muddy tones creating a completely different atmosphere than the yellow tones would on their own.
• Rough textures and shapes
• As well as the small high saturated eyes starring right back at the viewer.

Further Reflection & Development Process

The first version of this artwork had a cold blue colour scheme. The general composition is already the same as in the "King of Gold" final version, but I started to make some alterations appearance of the image. First of all I changed the colour scheme to a orange/yellow-green. Then I darkened the corners to emphasize the viewers focus on the centre of the image as the light edges would distract the viewer and lead the eyes away from the main subject and to the corners. 

I further added light affects to achieve the bright yellow/orange golden glow coming from the mouth, eyes and crown above. 

In able to maintain an evil and dark atmosphere despite the warm coloured light source I chose an olivetone for the background which is essentially a muddy green to contrast the orange/red in the centre of the image.