Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Boardwalk Arcade part 29



When I got back to the current proof today, I continued with putting in some reds- the neon sign, here and there on machines. One place I held off was on the machine being played by the guy in the black shirt. The top photo shows a detail from the first proof. The two pinball machines in the foreground are simplified versions of two very popular games from the period depicted in the image. (however obscure one's interests are, there's a very good chance someone else has already posted it somewhere on the internet) The designs are simplified, but the colors are meant to be accurate to those particular games. The problem is that the red color on the side of the machine on the left is similar to the adjacent red carpet, making it all kind of run together. I'm considering two options- either switch the locations of the red and white, or substitute another color (something in the blue to green range) for the red.
Having put off that decision, I moved on to greens. Mixed up a new dark green to put on the skeeball lanes and an air hockey player's shirt. A little darker and more blue than the version on the first proof. Don't know if I like it yet, and won't until I see all the other colors around it. Used a lighter yellow green on machines, prizes, etc, and pale washes of the the two greens on the back walls and some shirts respectively. Next was the light turquoise, pretty much in all the places it was in the first proof. Decided to call it a day after that, progress shown in the second photo above. What's left is mostly blues and grays, a few details, and decisions yet to be made.

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