Three Colour Challenge

The OCA Visual Communications Discord server have began organising monthly art challenges. The theme of the challenge is chosen at random each month from a list anyone can add ideas to. We then all have to guess who drew each piece, which helps us learn about each others styles better. These challenges are a lot of fun and are really helpful with developing our art styles.

This month the challenge was to create a piece of art using only three colours. We all had to use the same three colours, but the content was completely up to us. We could also use black, white, and shades of the same colours.

We were provided with three hex codes – #a26b73, #d68078, and #d4ab66. These were a shade of pink, and shade of purple, and a sort of yellowy gold. I liked the colours and was relieved that they were the ones chosen, as it could’ve been a lot worse and a lot harder to create something with.

I chose to draw a mug on a windowsill filled with flowers. Below you can see a video of my process and the final piece. I thoroughly enjoyed this and it’s one of my favourite pieces of work to date. I think I will work more with limited colour palettes, as I really love how it looks. I enjoyed having the creative freedom to draw whatever I wanted, and I definitely want to work more on my personal projects.