Colour Choices and Tonal Range

To begin with I took my emulation illustration and started to  experiment with different colour schemes. I did this to test whether a specific colour scheme would work better for my lyric book or if my original idea of following the Edward Gorey style would suit my work better.. Below is my first colour scheme test which is a black and white / monochromatic test.

The second test I tried was a complimentary colour scheme. This consisted of red and green hues as shown in the colour chart below. 

Another colour scheme I tried was an analogous scheme. Shown below is a colour wheel showing the variety of hues I used. I chose purple for this example so that there was a large difference between each colour scheme I chose to experiment with.

The final colour scheme I experimented with was a set of Triadic colours. These consisted of purple, green and orange hues. Although throughout each colour scheme it came obvious that a variety of colours did not match the style of my illustrations and therefore I will be using a monochromatic and bright red hues to contrast for my final pieces.