Uncle Lubin - experiments with colour palettes
experiments-with-colour-palettes
I’m a big fan of the ligne claire1 illustration style, which is basically clear strong lines filled with flat colour. I am also a fan of the eccentric drawings of Heath Robinson.
1 I think my love of this style comes from the fact that I was a huge fan of TinTin as a child. Still am in fact. Hergé is credited with being the pioneer of the style.
2 I used the marvellous Procreate app on the iPad to do the colouring, and then modified it in Photoshop.
Heath Robinson wrote and illustrated three children’s books. The first one was called The Adventures of Uncle Lubin, and was published in 1902. It contains some wonderful black and white line drawings. Not ligne claire style exactly (they contain hatching and shading) but lovely none-the-less. I decided to try colouring three of them, to experiment with different styles of brightness and colour saturation2.These are my experiments.
