Nitehox Color Test (Patreon)

Here's a colored version of an earlier environment sketch for Nitehox! I created two lighting schemes, one for the start and an emergency light scheme for the appearance of the monster.

I backpedaled on the emergency lighting scheme a little bit, creating sort of a compromise between it and the normal lighting for scenes in the bathroom and kitchen. Logically, emergency lighting would look the same at all times, but tonally, I use lighting mostly to shift the mood of the environment. 

Keeping the entire environment in "dangerous" mode for a majority of the story would kind of drain it of impact. There's not a lot of narrative satisfaction to the tone of a story staying exactly the same all the time. Using more normal lighting in some scenes is basically an implicit communication to the reader that this scene is relatively, like, safe.