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night-unfurls-its-splendour · 3 years ago

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Because I am an impatient fool, i posted my color palettes and collages separately, first the Palettes with explanations and then the collages, which I made later. So here is all of them together in one grand master-post because I can't stop obsessing over these fucking things. I've made tweaks and changes, edited, re-edited and now I think I've finally got them all nailed down.

Bella

Bella's palette is actually one of my favorites because it seems the most cohesive. There's a bunch more colors I could have included but i wanted to stick with five for every character, so these are the essentials.

(Left to right)

- Deep Blue (Hex: #04237E) RGB: 4, 35, 126

- Peaches (Hex: #FFCDC2) RGB: 255, 205, 194

- Cream (Hex: #FBF5ED) RGB: 251, 245, 257

- Classic Chevy (Hex: #DD7053) RGB: 221, 112, 83

- Chocolate (Hex: #402419) RGB: 64, 36, 25

Deep Blue is sort of Bella's theme color for me. I mean it would probably be brown since it's her favorite, but I like blue better and I definitely understand why Edward likes it on her. On top of which, sapphire is her birthstone. The pale pink (matched from the blush of the subject in Flaming June) and cream, which compliment the blue, are obviously representing her human skin tone. The chocolate brown is for her eyes and hair, and the red, as the name says, is for her Chevy, which I love, and which just really went well with the rest of the palette.

Edward

- Ocher Gold (Hex: #C88531) RGB: 200, 133, 49

- Bronze (Hex: #43180D) RGB: 67, 24, 13

- Silver Volvo (Hex: #C5CBCB) RGB: 197, 203, 203

- Khaki (Hex: #AFA586) RGB: 175, 165, 134

- Lilac (Hex: #BBA6BF) RGB: 187, 166, 191

Edward's palette is very muted because he's allergic to color, but it turned out nicer than I thought it would. It features (left to right)

Gold is the eye color of all the Cullens, of course, so it isn't unique to Edward, except that it's the theme color for his bedroom, and is probably a favorite of his. The bronze obviously signifies his hair, and Silver volvo is very self-explanatory--as is the khaki, which as we all know is Edward's real favorite color. Lilac is a bit more abstract--I decided to include it because Bella's description of Edward's scent (post-turning, when she can pick out all the notes) is Honey, lilac and sun.

[Featured images and reference pictures used for color matching: photo from the set of Eclipse (2010) of Edward's bedroom (Gold theme color), Bronze miniature of Eros and Psyche (edward's hair), Lilac cluster (references edward's scent as described by bella), Khaki pants, 2003 Silver Volvo S60R]

Carlisle

Carlisle was a little tough to decide on. It started out very... boring. Carlisle's not a particularly colorful person, but I made some tweaks and I like it rather a lot.

- Crucifix (Hex: #2E2420) RGB: 46, 36, 32

- Parchment (Hex: #D99D5A) RGB: 217, 157, 90

- Mint Green (Hex: #B5CEB8) RGB: 181, 206, 184

- Churchstone (Hex: #293838) RGB: 41, 56, 56

- Black Mercedes (Hex: #141217) RGB: 20, 18, 23

The one color I was certain I wanted in this palette is this brown. This is my theme color for Carlisle--it's the dark brown color of his crucifix, and the paneling in his office. I love how much Carlisle likes to evoke the time period he lived in in his personal spaces. Esme has free reign over the whole house, but Carlisle's office is starkly different and it's all dark stained wood and dusty books, which is so authentically 17th century it just makes my heart sing.

Churchstone represents the houses of worship that Carlisle loves to visit and finds comfort in, Along the same lines, the second color is parchment, which is matched from an extant frakturschriften work from the Historic Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. The site's unique religious history makes me certain that Carlisle must have visited it at some point in the last several decades.

The mint is a little nod to Carlisle's profession, because cool greens are commonly used in hospitals, and the black (rather superficially) is for his Mercedes.

Esme

Esme's palette was a delight for me, and I think it, like Bella's, is very cohesive and just really pretty.

(Left to right)

- Cerulean (Hex: #0D4B8A) RGB: 13, 75, 138

- Cornflower (Hex: #5C76CC) RGB: 92, 118, 204

- Wool Sweater (Hex: #CFC9BD) RGB: 207, 201, 189

- Beechwood (Hex: #E2B16F) RGB: 226, 177, 111

- Caramel (Hex: #B14C22) RGB: 177, 76, 34

Cerulean has just been my go to color for Esme pretty much since I first read the book. I have no idea why? I think Elizabeth Reaser was wearing it in the promo stills for the first film and it just stuck, but whatever the reason, I still hold that Esme looks great in Cerulean. Perhaps it's representative of the water around Isle Esme. Or maybe just because I think it would look nice with her Caramel hair.

Beechwood, because unless I'm mistaken that's the "honey-colored" wood that is her go-to for flooring and paneling in her interior design. Ivory was originally my choice because it's quite evocative of her life-time. But after some nagging constructive criticism from my sister I made some slight changes with both the ivory and the next color. Robin's egg blue was originally the second color. It was a place holder initially, because I asked my sister what color she most associated with Esme, and I thought, well it's a very fitting, motherly color. With hindsight, though, she proposed cornflower blue, instead, and although I still do like the original palette with Robins egg and ivory, I think this version is superior.

Alice

Alice was a head-scratcher. I only had two colors that I really associate with her, but I think it turned out okay.

- Black Satin (Hex: #282D2D) RGB: 40, 45, 45

- Dark Lip (Hex: #605054) RGB: 96, 80, 84

- Ice Blue (Hex: #96DDE0) RGB: 150, 221, 224

- Canary Yellow (Hex: #FDC504) RGB: 253, 197, 4

- Orange Scarf (Hex: #DA6718) RGB: 218, 103, 24

Black was the first color I had chosen for Alice, and I color-matched this to a picture of the Cerruti gown that Meyer used as inspiration for her prom dress.

The dusty purple was rather clever of me, if I say it myself. I took a screen cap of Alice from Twilight and color matched her lip-stick under the blue-tint, and I just loved it. It's a dark shade of mauve, the theme color for Bella's wedding in Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 (ironic, since mauve is a mourning color), but I think it also suits the morose side of Alice's back-story.

Ice blue was a choice I made because the ice blue dress she puts on Bella for her newborn awakening always really stuck out to me, but also because I think it suits Alice, since, for a very extroverted person, she has this very chilly side.

The canary yellow was the other color I picked of the top of my head--it goes well with black and it's also the color of her beloved Porsche 911.

Originally the last color was a light mauve, taken from Alice's bridesmaid's dress, but I've since altered it to a shade of orange, color-matched from Tamara De Lempicka's "The Orange Scarf" (1927), because the model for the main figure of that painting reminded me strikingly of Alice. The work, oil on wood, was painted for the cover of an edition of the German fashion magazine, Die Dame; the second work de Lempicka executed for the publication (the first being her famous self portrait "Tamara in the Green Bugatti"). The association with fashion seemed a fitting motif to add to Alice's palette.

Jasper

Left to right

- Ocean Jasper (Hex: #212F1E) RGB: 33, 47, 30

- Lionet Gold (Hex: ##B1914D) RGB: 177, 145, 77

- Major Grey (Hex: #4D4E50) RGB: 77, 78, 80

- Antique Red (Hex: #7F3A34) RGB: 127, 58, 52

- Bloodred (Hex: #790802) RGB: 121, 8, 2

Blood red was the first color I thought of when I sat down to do Jasper's palette, especially after reading Midnight Sun, which is the only time you get a glimpse of Jasper in action.

The other was the murky green, which I color matched to an ocean jasper, because duh. This became my theme color for Jasper. Paired with that, also matched from the same ocean jasper I got the green from is a lionet gold, which reminded me of Jasper's being described by Bella in Twilight as "Tall and leonine".

The gray is color matched from a picture of an extant Confederate Major's frock coat, and the faded red is matched from the sash of the same.

Rosalie

- Imola Red (Hex: #FB022F) RGB: 251 G: 2 B: 47

- Claret (Hex: #530203) RGB: 83, 2, 3

- Golden Blond (Hex: #FDBB54) RGB: 253, 187, 84

- Deco White (Hex: #FDFBF9) RGB: 253, 251, 249

- Violet Blue (Hex: #3D3B81) RGB: 61, 59, 129

The first shade of rosy red here is actually color-matched to the "Imola Red" paint of Rosalie's BMW M3, and the darker claret red is matched to the lipstick in a color picture of Joan Bennett. Joan Bennett is pretty much how I imagine Rosalie. Rosalie;s style of beauty doesn't really match the beauty standards of the time in which she lived, and she doesn't match any of the iconic actresses of her time--the exception being Joan Bennett.

The blonde shade was color matched from the model in another Tamara de Lempicka work, "The Straw Hat" (1930), which depicts a beautiful blond girl with bright red lips in a straw summer hat, holding a spray of pale pink flowers.

The violet blue is Rosalie's human eye color, and it's matched from a picture of Elizabeth Taylor, who was famed for her uncommon violet eye-color, and her beauty which was commonly considered to be near-perfect.

I feel like Rosalie loves white. Her bedroom, in supplemental sources is described as a "large, white room" and white and red were popular color combinations in the Art Deco interior design of the 1930's.

Emmett

I loved doing Emmett's color palette. I'm realizing how much their backstories influence my color associations with the Cullens as I'm writing this and the same holds true for Emmett.

- Red Flannel (Hex: #CE0D02) RGB: 206, 13, 2

- Rye Whiskey (Hex: #792104) RGB: 121, 33, 4

- Smokey Mountain Green (Hex: #183F01) RGB: 24, 63, 1

- Miner's Denim (Hex: #31425C) RGB: 49, 66, 92

- Coal Dust (Hex: #292E31) RGB: 41, 46, 49

Emmett's Jeep is red of course, and he shares the association with red with his wife. But all the other colors are inspired from his origins in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, present in the deep forest green, the coal dust gray; and my personal favorite color matches, the red brown of rye whiskey and, the first color I thought of for Emmett after red: denim blue. This blue is color matched from extant miner's jeans from the late 20's.

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Now for the palletes for my OC's, Ada and Cem

Ada

Lightning (Hex: #9192D8) RGB: 145, 146, 216

Lilac Silk (Hex: #D9CCDD) RGB: 217, 204, 221

Yellow Sage (Hex: #EAF7AC) RGB: 234, 247, 172

Burnished Copper (Hex: #D48973) RGB: 212, 137, 115

Black Cherry (Hex: #310410) RGB: 49, 4, 16

So the first color here, this light lavender-gray, is frankly just my favorite color, but it's also one I think would look really good on Ada. I think it contrasts interestingly with the pinkish, burnished copper red of her hair. I color matched the purple from a picture of clouds illuminated by lightning, and the copper from a picture of copper wire. The pale sage green/yellow and lilac are color-matched from the Valentino gown I used as inspiration for Ada's prom dress.

The Black Cherry is the color of Ada's Mazda RX-8. Only the Shinka limited edition of that car came in this shade of Black Cherry, and it's a very distinctive color that I wound up moulding her whole color palette around.

Cem

Cem, Ada's mate (who she meets while abroad in Greece following the Cullen exodus from forks in New Moon), has a palette that is primarily inspired by his human life as a Janissary under Sultan Mehmed II.

- Wine-dark Sea (Hex: #280916) RGB: 40, 9, 22

- Janissary (Hex: #891A22) RGB: 137, 26, 34

- Rosewood (Hex: #63241F) RGB: 99, 36, 31

- Gray Eyes (Hex: #756660) RGB: 117, 102, 96

- Amber Gold (Hex: #AE5E02) RGB: 174, 94, 2

The purple, which is Cem's primary theme color, is matched from Phoenecian purple dye.

The red color was color-matched to period drawings of Janissaries (albeit from a century later than Cem lived). The rosewood shade is representative of Cem's hair color, which is a light brown with faint hints of red.

The gray is his human eye color (I color matched it from a picture of Turkish actor Cem Yiğit Uzumoğlu, who was a visual inspiration for Cem--I had already named Cem before I drew inspiration from the actor its just a very common Turkish name), and the dark amber-gold is the transitional shade of Cem's eyes as they turn from red to gold after joining the Cullens.

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