Nobrow Colour Research

I thought I would research nobrow's popular colour palette, since it is very much relevant to me.

Extract from Nobrow brief.

Colour is very important in illustrations, and whether they be black and white, or full colour, each tonal route makes a massive difference to the image.

Nobrow uses a limited colour palette in a lot of their prints and publications.  This can be seen in many illustrations by artists, who use Nobrow for their printing.

http://www.nobrow.net/13008 < Image reference at this link.

The print above is a good example of a restricted Nobrow colour palette. This illustration uses the colours red and blue, and when overlapped, give other colours, such as burgundy. This is a very smart way of enabling a large amount of tones, from such a small range of colours. It is also a very good way of cost efficiency. Nobrow use a lot of silkscreen printing processes, as well as spot colour printing.

http://payload231.cargocollective.com/1/3/100949/6937678/TomsNobrow.jpg < image reference at this link.

Above is another example of a restricted colour palette. The illustration is by the artist Tom Clohosy Cole, for Nobrow 6, which was entitled "The Doppelgangers".

In my own opinion, this limited colour palette, still looks as vivid as a full colour one, and very interesting, due to its unique visual style.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaXFBC8bOACDb_PXi8xmtHX4RQRH5pzOcO-9IoXcRR8ssw6Tik0kcdb_S-qK5y9BmcG3cMrvx3Wf3Ll5nVHCQfJAYyr9-aYSYNhtNutP2EV6XGnyFaVRx0NEB3u3rVBF7m-Mpttr_AjUze/s1600/nobrow3.jpg < image reference at this link.

Another example of the use of overlapping limited colours.

This image is an example of my own Nobrow inspired piece, this is one of the illustrations that I will be using in the final.

Thomas.