Painting colour and light 2.0 Group run through week Five!

burvantill

Ambient. This was tough. It was hard to accept it without light and shadow contrast. It looks to flat to me. I think soft light will be easier for me.

burvantill

@Braden-Hallett nice Is this the two overlaid? It’s subtle but good.

Coley

@burvantill great job on the ambient tho! It does feel weird to shade less I agree. I'm learning a lot by doing these exercises.

burvantill

@Coley Thanx. I think I just had an epiphany. It’s rainy and darkish here and I was just studying the trees outside trying to figure out why they don’t look flat. Texture! [face palm]
Duh
I’m going to add some texture lines for contour to my drawing to see if it helps.

Coley

@burvantill ooooh very epihanyish of you! I didn't understand what you meant at first but when I reread the post, I had the epiphany too

NicolaSchofield

Here are my hard, soft, & ambient light attempts. I think I'm caught up now! But I should do more...
The shadow shapes are a bit out in places but I think they'll do and I was mostly concentrating on the colour and feel.
My favourite part is her hair in the soft light version. I don't know if that's because the colour of the highlight worked so well or because I just really like that sort of light generally and it took me away from our current constant darkness

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burvantill

I added some texture to my drawing and re-saved the ambient light. Here is soft light, which I really liked drawing and ambient again.

LOL Looking at them just now together it looks like the sun JUST went down. Totally unintended, but super cool.