Color Adjustments
August 27th, 2008One of the many wonderful elements to illustration is definitely color. One service we often provide for architects is showing the many options of color palettes for the design. The challenge often lies in having all the different parties agree, with stakeholders ranging from architects, developer, city council, marketing/advertiser, etc.
In addition, what looks good on a color board or even color fan may not look good as an illustration. This is largely due to the need for the rendering to “pop” and have a punch. In the real world, the colors need to blend and be more subtle.
Of course, there is the perennial problem of making sure we are all looking and talking about the same colors. Monitors and printers are often not calibrated or synchronized. In addition to that, color samples from the manufacturer’s website sometimes also appear wildly different than tangible color chips. Colors scanned also suffer data or quality loss.
Overall, color changes may require many iterations but at the end, we always end up with a satisfied customer. Below are two project, one commerical and the other residential, showing the many (sometimes subtle) color choices.


































