Round 13: Complementary Colours

[lookslikerain.livejournal.com]

This month's challenge is to make your icons with a focus on complementary colours. Complementary colours are pairs of colours which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grayscale colour like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colours. Due to this striking colour clash, the term opposite colours is often considered more appropriate than "complementary colours".

Which pairs of colours are considered complementary depends on the colour theory used:

- RGB additive/CMY subtractive: red–cyan, green–magenta, and blue–yellow.
- RYB colour model: red–green, yellow–purple, and blue–orange.
- Opponent process theory: red–green, and blue–yellow.

I don't mind how you break up you colours - they can be a mixed on your icons, or you could do pairing colour sets, with a balanced number of icons in prodominent colours. For example:

- ten prodominent blue, paired with ten prodominent yellow
- five blue icons with five yellow icons and; five green icons with five magenta icons
- five blue icons with five yellow icons and ten blue-yellow icons.
- twenty icons, using the complementary colours in any combination (that is, any number of red–cyan, green–magenta and/or blue–yellow icons)

Please don't feel restricted to bright, saturated icons either - there's a few muted examples below to show it can be done with softer colours! :)

Below are a couple of colour wheels to help figure our which colour pairs with which. Genenerally speaking, a colour is paired with the other on the opposite side. Either of the below wheels are fine to use for reference - they vary slightly, and that's okay if your icons do too. What's life without a little variety? ;)

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More on complementary colours: Wikipedia



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Icons

pamkips	nightbulbs	jadeleopard	erzsebet	jokermary
longerthanwedo	lady_turner	neatmonster	kitamikeita	luminousdaze
adriftingsea	erzsebet	hitsuga	naginis	longerthanwedo

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adriftingsea	adriftingsea	neatmonster	sucksucksmile	lady_turner
word_never_said	word_never_said	longerthanwedo	longerthanwedo	neatmonster
shameless666	emmatheslayer	novindalf	sietepecados	afastmachine
lemonzter	tiptoetwirl	margerydaw_s2	neatmonster	delorentoes
xafirah	before_water	paperdreamss	odd_one_around	neatmonster
asitlays	scarred_loretta	sweet_pink_paw	neatmonster	naive_astronaut

Images








All photos courtesy of Unsplash

Dancers at the Barre Edgar Degas - 1888	La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume) Claude Monet - 1876	Two Sisters (detail) Pierre-Auguste Renoir - 1881
Young Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat Vincent van Gogh - 1890	Children on a Farm (detail) Camille Pissarro - 1887	Giant Everlasting Protea (detail) Marianne North - 1882

pauzamro // tumblr	sarakipin // tumblr

jonmarchione // tumblr	tinypaint // tumblr

Textures

juanxyo	lemonpunch	erzsebet	pandavirus	pandavirus
hybridmagic	poshing	spud66cat	lemonpunch	deny1984
munrikki	scoobyatemysnax	rhcp_csi	deny1984	pamkips
lookslikerain	pamkips	pamkips	tinebrella	daynawashere
deny1984	rhcp_csi	poshing	innocent_lexys	lemonpunch
munrikki	tinebrella	tinebrella	innocent_lexys	tinebrella
dekolette	rhcp_csi	erzsebet	rhcp_csi	poshing
likealight	veticapaint	fuuurs	pandavirus	munrikki

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Rules:
• Participation is open to all. There are no sign ups or claims.
• At least 10 of your 20 icons must be inspired directly by the theme.
• Post your icons in a new post, titled "Round 13: username". Provide 3 teaser icons.
• Tag your entries with the following: round: x, user: x
• Please include the include the following in your post, updated with your username and links:
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• Your icons are due 31 May 2018, 11:59PM in your timezone. If you need an extension let me know.

Comments

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for using my icon I am not good at this kinda thing so I think I am gonna take a pass this month but I am glad you liked my icon thank you

[sietepecados]

Color porn!!!this post is beautiful ❤❤❤

[vanessa-lj.livejournal.com]

Fantastic the theme of this contest, I will try to participate absolutely

[arbdhax.livejournal.com]

Waow this post is stunning from beginning to the end! Thanks!
Absolutely I´m in!

[kitamikeita.livejournal.com]

Amazing post! Really eye-pleasing. Thank you for including one of my icons!

I hope I'll be able to participate :)

[novindalf]

Beautiful insp post! Thank you so much for including one of my icons here!

[debris4spike]

Sounds fascinating - but sadly I won't be able to be involved as I am colourblind ... see you next month!

[word_never_said.livejournal.com]

So cool to see my work as examples! This is a stunning post! I'd love to join in (if the muse allows ;D)

[tturners.livejournal.com]

Hi, I have a question: can we make more than one icon with the same colour combination? And if so, is there a limit on how many? I still haven't made many icons and I am not yet sure of the general direction I'm taking (I'm looking at the examples of combinations you provided) hence my question, before it's too late haha :D. UGH I feel like nothing makes sense in the previous sentences, sorry! Let me know if I need to further explain my concern

[lookslikerain.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can make as many as you like using the same colour combos :)

[tturners.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you very much :)

[luminousdaze]

Thank you for using one of my icons. :)

[tinny]

I completely missed this post, but there are still 11 days left, so I can make it! I love coloring, and I haven't made really contrasting icons in a while, so this should be fun!