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Kyle's Hero/Villain
Okay let's start these critiques off with Kyle's Hero/Villain combination. I am going to be looking at the lighting for this. In affinity with one another they both used shadows for their drawings, but the shadows on the villain are noticeably darker and easily seen. I am able to tell the drawings apart especially from that. As for the symbolism, I have noticed that the lighting for each drawing have shown the symbol for what it represents, such as the hero it is known it is fighting for justice and to keep peace, while the villain shows itself as being mischievous and wanting to create chaos. As for the mood part of lighting, we are instantly put into a mood that we know who the villain and the hero are and know who can save us and who will hurt us. In summary to this, we actively are searching for what the two characters are going to do, while didactically we know which one is the hero and which one is the villain.
Also with the stated before contrasts, I noticed simply the quality of the drawings we know who has a better drawing, while both are not bad at all, one is drawn quite well. Also, I notice the colors are different to show differential between the two characters. The size of the characters being a big difference two on paper is interesting because the villain is smaller and the hero is larger. This could be a representation of how the hero is more powerful then the villain. All in all, very well done
Max's Hero/Villain
Secondly, I will take a look at Max's hero/villain combination. I am going to talk about lighting again and starting off with the affinities between the two. Again both use shadows. The shadows of the drawings again show really quick who the villain and who the hero is. The villain is drawn with deeper shadows to show darkness to the person. The hero is drawn with little shadows almost showing a light on it. The symbolism for this is the fact that we know that the hero is well revered and well liked, showing again it is a hero. The villain on the other hand is almost lurking in the shadows hiding from people symbolizing the character is the villain. The mood of the pictures do create this mood of heroism for hero by the lighting and darkness and anger almost to the villain.
Along with the contrasts from above, there aren't a whole lot more. They both use the colors of blue and gold/yellow, but they aren't the same hue of those colors. The shadows create this differential use colors. They both use different weapons also with the hero using a pitchfork, while the villain is using a hammer looking tool. Again both are done very well, I actually do not remember seeing bad images for any member of the lab.
Madolyn's Hero/Villain
This seems to be a recurring theme to use lighting, especially the shadows in the drawings to show who exactly is the hero and who is the villain. The deep shadows of the villain obviously show the darker side that is shown mostly in villains, while the lighter shadows of the hero show the shine of the hero, giving off the mood of goodness. The mood of the villain is to show the darkness and evil within itself. As for the symbolism, the hero is really showing off it's motivation and what it stands for, because it looks exactly like a water drop or a soap bubble that wants to clean something. The hero also is quite obvious for what it's motivation is, simply because it looks dirty, and just pretty much looks like a monster made of straight mud and dirt. So it obviously wants to make things dirty.
As for the contrast and affintity, there isn't too much in common between the two, they are polar opposites, which is a good thing for heroes and villains. One wants to keep things clean, the other wants to dirty things up. The hero is a bright blue color of clean while the villain keeps a dirty, dark brown color with everything around it dark also, probably leaving a trail of mud behind. All in all, very well done.
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