Painting colour and light 2.0 Group run through week Five!

burvantill · 9 Jan 2020, 03:14

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 · 9 Jan 2020, 03:15

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

Coley · 9 Jan 2020, 11:36

@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 · 9 Jan 2020, 15:30

@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 · 9 Jan 2020, 20:45

@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 · 9 Jan 2020, 22:13

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

burvantill · 10 Jan 2020, 03:47

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.