Painting colour and light 2.0 Group run through week Five!

braden H · 6 Jan 2020, 03:38

I wanna speed things up a little with these lighting situations!

This week is soft light and ambient light.

Reminder: Everyone's welcome to participate, but in order to have access to the classes and homework you need an SVS subscription. It's worth it.

Feel free to do digital or traditional. It's all good.

This week!

Watch:

Revisit 'lighting situations and watch the short section on soft light and ambient light. There's no painting demo, but I think both these kinds of light are pretty friendly

Homework:

Continue exercise 9 in the workbook!

Using either the lizard (quite the lizard) in the workbook or your own drawing (a sphere or object would be fine) AND REFERENCE (lots and lots of reference!!) paint a soft light AND ambient light scenario.

I'm planning on setting up a sphere and a cube together in order to keep things consistent (kinda Will's steps and cylinder thinger) and working with those from here on out.

Feel free to post your work for feedback and support here!

I find doing a small study every day instead of one big study a week helps a lot with hammering the rules behind these lighting scenarios home.

Keep going, guys! This is really good stuff to practice!

braden H · 6 Jan 2020, 15:39

Notes and shapes

braden H · 7 Jan 2020, 15:17

Coley · 7 Jan 2020, 16:55

nice work @Braden-Hallett . I'm working on catching up for the next little chunk of art time I have today. Is there any reason you have them in different colors? ie brown versus whitish grey etc or just what you picked out that day?! I'm trying to decide what color to use lol

Coley · 7 Jan 2020, 17:38

soft light

Coley · 7 Jan 2020, 17:54

maybe should be a little less saturated on the ball color? anyhow, it was really helpful to solidy and practice this learning through these exercises

braden H · 8 Jan 2020, 17:38

@Coley said in Painting colour and light 2.0 Group run through week Five!:

Is there any reason you have them in different colors? ie brown versus whitish grey etc or just what you picked out that day?

I'm tryin' to pick out a neutral scenario so that I can have an easier time comparing the two

braden H · 8 Jan 2020, 17:40

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.