Color
Though the protagonists colors were darker in nature, there was an underlying pulse of feeling, of passion behind the color scheme. For Jezebel I chose to utilize analogous earthy tones. Closely resembling the appearance of autumn, near winter. It was my intention to convey a feeling of death and decay with the character.
There are different hues of brown and many incorporate a more pale lifeless look. These decaying colors correlate to the dry emotionless manner in which Jezebel views her world, and how detached her motives are from moral perceptions.
Where Alexandra is passion filled and brimming with frustration, Jezebel is cold, impassive and devoid of mercy.
Lighting
Contradictory to the more conventional approach to lighting a villain, all shadowed and half lit, I wanted to experiment with the reversal of that. The key elements of a shadowed villain are that you only see half their face and the rest of the image is shrouded in darkness, the final effect of this is that the focus is on the character and you don't get a sense of where they are. Those elements were important to me, and I wanted to maintain them, but in a new way.
I chose to light Jezebel in a heavy contrast where the background is nearly washed out and her features are only recognizable in the dark shapes.
This approach still allowed me to preserve the sinister hidden style of the classic villain, but with a twist.
Shape / Line
Again trending with opposing Alexandra, Jezebel's shape and line has a very open stance. Jezebel's line is outwardly confrontational, rather than inwardly defensive. Her overall shape is again round, but has many features that are very triangular. Those triangular qualities give her character a dangerous and sense heightening appearance. A persons eyes are drawn very quickly over all of the angular and demonic features first, before moving on to the humanistic characteristics.
This gives Jezebel a more sinister and imposing effect on the viewers, her presence is free burning and dynamic. Where in retrospect her protagonist counterpart is a smoldering tug at our heartstrings.
Antagonist - Jezebel
(All credit to the final image goes to len-yan)
(Again, I'm rubbish with modeling and artwork)
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