This is a color scheme exercise, featuring abstract patterns based on a collage of maps.
Left has tetrad featuring yellow, violet, blue-green, and red-orange.
A tetrad is a 4-color scheme with two pairs of complimentary colors (opposite on the color wheel). The two pairs are yellow and violet, and blue-green and red-orange. Because of that, two colors are on the warm side (yellow, red-orange) and two on the cold side (violet, blue-green). To create the tertiary colors, I had to blend primary and secondary colors by coloring those areas with both pencils.
Middle has triad featuring red-orange, blue-violet, and yellow-green.
Triads are 3-color schemes where the colors are evenly spaced apart on the color wheel, resulting in 2 cold and 1 warm (or vise versa). I enjoyed blending tertiary colors in the first one, so my choices were such that I would have all tertiary colors. One regret I have is not applying water in the order from lightest to darkest.
Right has split-complimentary featuring orange, blue-violet, and blue-green.
A split-complimentary color scheme has 3 colors, with 2 being adjacent to the compliment of the other 1. Like the triad, there is also 2 cold and 1 warm (or vise versa), but the difference is much more obvious. This one is my favorite of the three. I'm a fan of cyberpunk artwork, which is often dark cityscapes with a contrast between blue and orange. To focus the color scheme on blue, that was the side I chose to split into 2 colors, while orange was only used for accents.
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