Pear and Rat Hair Colour Iteration and Feedback.

After getting done with choosing a hairstyle I wanted to experiment with hair colours. As I mentioned in my previous post I wanted hair colours that would have been around at the time the characters are supposed to be from, and hair colours that would work with the theme and phobias.

For the Pear I looked online to find out what colours would have been available and found this info

I was quite surprised by this as I didn't realise they had access to so many different colours, I guess the wig makers would get plants and other such materials to create the odd colours. I used this information to create my colour iteration and looked for feedback.

two out of the three people chose 2, I was really keen on the pink hair but I don't think it would have worked as well as, I was happy with the choosing of 2 though as the pale blue was one of the colours I had selected with my colour palette, it also looks good against the coppers and yellows of the cogs and clock-pieces. So the final image of the head looks like this.

And now for the Rat hair. As I said in the previous post, I wanted colours that both represented the Elizabethan fashion for red hair and the colours of rat fur. I also went with a greyed one as if the stress of the torture made her hair turn grey.

Again two of the three people chose 2, this works for me because its sort of a mix of the base and four, it also doesn't wash out the buboes too much, I think having the red hair wouldn't have worked as well because it would have been too much red and the buboes just kind of merge in with the hair colour. This is the final head of the Rat Torture lady.

I really love how all the heads came out, even though the time periods are quite near to each other, all three look entirely different, one of my biggest concerns was that I would end up with three characters who looked similar. Now onto the clothing!