michabo said:
Funny you should mention that! Everyone tells me that jealousy should be green (like "envy"). I chose blue to show sort of tranquility (which jealousy consumes), and jealousy itself to be red - sort of hot and passionate. I didn't add any yellow to keep the colours deliberately out of harmony. I still have a hard time thinking of jealousy as being anything but green, I just can't figure out how to make it work.
What do you think? Can jealousy NOT use green?
Well, I think you can use an colors you want to, lol...I only said that because jealousy being green is such a cliche. I know I've been jealous plenty of times in my life, and I just never thought that green was an accurate description of the color of my feelings, ya know? I think that red more closely would capture it, maybe...for me, it's a feeling pretty close to anger (does that make me psycho??
), so, even though anger being red is also somewhat cliche, I think it's much more accurate...at least for me, personally. But, if you feel
green when you're jealous, then you should definitely use green.
And I think what you've done is actually a pretty good representation so far...no matter how sweet a person you are, when you're extremely jealous it can definitely consume all those calm and tranquil feelings...it can transform that part of you into something that you don't even recognize. I think the 'consuming' angle that you're using is really great. It's a slow consumption, though...which is the feeling I get from looking at your picture. There's also an aspect of desperation that jealousy produces...at least in me...a feeling that I would do almost anything to get what I want. Desperation is a dangerous componant of jealousy, though I'm not sure how I'd represent that visually...it makes me think of all those myths and stories that you hear about people selling their soul to the devil. The things that people are willing to go through to be loved...
Anyway, I'm rambling on, but I think you have a lot of options depending on where you want the picture to go. Just go back to a time in your life when you can still tangibly
feel the jealousy you felt, and work from that place...unless you're incredibly jealous at the present time, which would work in your favor, I think.
If you can
feel it, then it should be much easier to visually represent it. But, you probably knew that already.
I think it's going great so far, though.
