Am I colour blind?

[salinea]

[Poll #1286945]

ETA: a link to the art in question : Oberyn
ETA2: The artist changed the colour of skin in the linked art above, so it doesn't correspond any more with the one I put in the box.

Comments

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've met people with skin that colour.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

wow. It's the kind of colouring I only imagine Martians to have, and I wonder how much is... different people "reading" a colour differently or possible different monitors screening the colour different.

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

I'm not really seeing it as green--it looks more brown in the square than the original picture, but even the original picture doesn't really look "odd" to me. If I had to think, I'd say it was a bit pale, as if the person were ill, but the colour I can see on my monitor is one I've seen on human skin.

[werthead.livejournal.com]

I've never seen anyone with skin that colour, and if I did I would suggest they went to the nearest hospital on suspicion of suffering from gangerene :-O

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

LOL I would ask them if they come in peace!

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It doesn't look *green* to me, but it doesn't necessarily look like a possible skin color, either.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

heh, glad to know I'm not necessarily colour blind

[hamsterwoman]

It looks more grey-ish brown than green-ish brown to me (but I think my monitor tends to wash out the greens anyway). As far as skin color, it looks like someone dark-skinned being sickly pale or sallow underlying the natural dark skin color.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

[dizilla.livejournal.com]

having looked at it through my lj style color's as a bg, it looked one way. Looking at it now with a white bg, it has a more brownish tinge. Looking at the art, it kinda works better and I see it as the artist trying to portray someone of malay descent or the like. If we were to assume the subject is from an earth like place. XD

Nonetheless it's still a bit sickly of a color and gives the chara a rather dirty look/feel to him. But that could be for the bluish bg behind him (might look better with a normal outdoor background) and the lack of shading for the skin.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also think the background + lack of shading doesn't help at all (and the character is from fantasy world, with a shade of skin I would compare to that of Mediterranean or Arabian people, at most)

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

It looks too green-ish to be a skin colour to me. o.O You know, I too wonder how much is different perceptions and how much is different monitors...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell, isn't it? Obviously a variety of responses but green is one of the dominant.

[trobadora]

On my screen it looks like khaki/greenish gold. More golden on its own on a white background than in the original art, though.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's more golden-brown on the square with a white background for me too! But still too green to be human XD

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

The color looks wrong and inhuman in the linked Oberyn, yes, but the color itself reminds me of things like this.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Ooooh you're right, it's kind of the same shade XD

[scriva.livejournal.com]

It's funny the colour in the pic looks more green-ish and brown-ish to me than the colour you posted, but I did check green-ish and brown-ish before deciding for grey-ish and brown-ish.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

colour perception is strongly influenced by the colour surrounding i :)

[scriva.livejournal.com]

It is indeed, but you are right that it is a weird colour to use as a skin tone. However, everytime someone mentions olive skin, I actually think of green olives, and this colour is not so far away from the colour of green olives. ;)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

lol yes, that was my first reaction to that art "olive skinned doesn't mean literally green"!
Olive is a tricky descriptive in terms of the image it evoques in the head. Then again words to describe skin tones are tricky.

[solesakuma]

It's too green for me to be a natural skin-colour. :S

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

For me too!

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

It's definitely too green, even in the artwork. It needs a more ruddy gold undertone than a green gold undertone to work.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

'ruddy gold', I like that word :D

I agree with you!

[skyclearblue.livejournal.com]

HA, brownish is winning! 8D

Hey, guys, I'm the artist in question, and I have changed his skin color so it can no longer possibly be construed as greenish. At least, so I hope and pray. I never dreamed my little drawing would cause such controversy. :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

HA, brownish is winning! 8D
.... sort of. Still more than half the people asked don't see as a realistic human skin colour (putting the No + only surrealistic votes together)

[deeplyunhip.livejournal.com]

I never dreamed my little drawing would cause such controversy. :)

Probably because you didn't know what a freaking pain in the ass etrangere was. :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

what can I say, I'm bored :D

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's not skin-like, it's not green as in grass green but comparing it to my own brown, and I'm rather yellowish as far as skin tone goes, it makes even me look pink-toned.

Don't think it was done maliciously but maybe next time can take a better look at skin tones, they are tricksy things to get right.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yea, I don't think it's malicious either. Skin tones are difficult to get right!

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

people I've met with that skin color have been Central American, like Guatamalan or Honduran.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

At least it looks human to you XD

[arboretum]

well, to get all color theory on you, it kind of depends on what colors are around it / what color light we're supposed to think the person is standing in. (a dark-skinned person standing under fluorescent light? totally. under broad daylight? not so much.)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

oooh color theory :D sounds fun.

Well you have a link to the picture. He's supposed to be in broad daylight, but there's a colour block background, currently mauve, used to be teal.

[shiinabambi.livejournal.com]

It's a known fact that what colors you put any given color next to affect how that color is perceived. I've drawn characters with green, blue and purple skin, but by keeping the other colors in the picture in that palate, created the illusion that it was a normal skin tone in green, blue, or purple lighting (I hope). I could absolutely pull that color off as a skin tone.

I'm not sure what the artist was thinking, using so much red, gold, brown and black, and then a PURPLE background. The purpleness might be what's making the skin look green.

Then again, it might just be my monitor. The color in your box looks like bronze to me. It's actually much more bright and saturated than any skin tone I would use--looks more like metal than skin. Light or dark, I always pick my skin tones from the grayer end of the spectrum. But again, in the right kind of lighting, it could work.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not the purple background makes it looks less green than it previously was, when there was a teal background.

looks more like metal than skin.
Yes! That's also my problem, along with the greenish-ness :)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

My monitor at work is color-corrected -- that is really too green to be a skin color. (I see that the artist has changed the image to make it more brownish). The only way I'd use it is in some very specific instances of graphic art.

BTW, I voted for both brownish and greenish. Because, well, it is both. ;-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I thought it was too green as well :) at least in that style of art.

and yeah, it's both! I put checkboxes for a reason :)

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Well, it's brownish to me - even more with the white background - but as I said, my monitor sort of fucks up the warmer colors so everything is fair game. As for it being a realistic skin tone, I'm pretty much with hamsterwoman - it goes into "zombie skin" territory. But then, it happens to a lot of artists (heck, I think I went there with my latest Jon art too :-P); saturated skin tones might appear to be too cartoonish, then the artists try to tone them down with the effect that they all look greyish and give this unhealthy impression. In a nutshell: common mistake :-)