Painting colour and light group runthrough week 9!

braden H · 5 Feb 2020, 15:13

searching for silhouetted figures is harder than I'd have thought. The google wants to give me nothing but black cutouts on white.

Most scenic hiking vistas seem to have sohouetted figures, though

burvantill · 6 Feb 2020, 06:03

This was the view from my driveway this evening while walking the dog. Multiple light sources and backlit silhouettes. I had to try. It’s pretty dark. I stood in the driveway for about 5 minutes trying to memorize it, I didn’t have my phone on me for pics, so I don’t know how close I got. The foreground bothers me the most. It’s kinda mushy.
Edit: Wow! It’s WAY darker on my phone than on my iPad.

braden H · 6 Feb 2020, 15:51

@burvantill said in Painting colour and light group runthrough week 9!:

It’s kinda mushy.

It's dark. No detail makes sense

braden H · 6 Feb 2020, 15:53

Most multiple light sources I can find are at night and mostly street lights.

Even in photography people seem to try and find single light sources

braden H · 7 Feb 2020, 15:00

Silhouette!

chrisaakins · 8 Feb 2020, 02:13

@Braden-Hallett @burvantill Look! A silhouette! I am so sad that I had to miss this class with you guys. It looks like you have grown a great deal as artists.

Looking at your work I can see with this piece that lil' Reb would probably be darker based on teh light source and Inky would be as well.

burvantill · 8 Feb 2020, 04:27

Second attempt. silhouette and multiple light sources.

braden H · 8 Feb 2020, 14:39

@chrisaakins Hey! A silhouette! And you didn't miss the class, it's still there. Waiting. Watching. Judgiiiiiiiiiing.

Seriously, though, that's an awesome mouse silhouette in ink!

Coley · 9 Feb 2020, 13:13

I found a reference for a deer on pinterest and stuck fairly close to it with exception of not painting the crow on the deer's back . silhouette. maybe a bit of scattered light influence as well

Coley · 9 Feb 2020, 15:01

Also I screenshotted this from Facebook. Funny play on silhouettes

Coley · 9 Feb 2020, 22:18

I seem to have trouble balancing things in dark situations but here's my attempt at practicing multiple light sources. I seem to have things too dark but when I lighten it, it looks washed out or not like it's nightime. It's good to practice these things and start figuring it out anyhow here is a combo of Moonlight and a lantern on a very full wolf. Hopefully little Red made it home!!!!!

burvantill · 10 Feb 2020, 00:07

@Coley LOL. too cute.

Coley · 10 Feb 2020, 00:23

@burvantill thanks. I just realized he has dog ears and not wolf ears lol. I mistakenly represented him as a wolf. My bad ha ha

braden H · 10 Feb 2020, 02:20

@Coley said in Painting colour and light group runthrough week 9!:

I found a reference for a deer on pinterest and stuck fairly close to it with exception of not painting the crow on the deer's back . silhouette. maybe a bit of scattered light influence as well

I like! I really like the super soft brush work.

braden H · 10 Feb 2020, 02:22

@Coley said in Painting colour and light group runthrough week 9!:

I seem to have trouble balancing things in dark situations but here's my attempt at practicing multiple light sources.

Cool! Multiple light sources is REALLY hard. Most of the time I see them in photo's they don't actually influence much. They're just spots of bright in mostly darkness.

braden H · 10 Feb 2020, 02:24

All right, ladies and gents! I think that's pretty much it!

Thanks to everyone for joining in when they could. I didn't realize that this course was QUITE so big when we started, lol.

I think I'll keep doing a mini study a day for the foreseeable future to really cement the different kinds of lighting situations we learned about.

And then at some point I'll do another class

Hope everyone had a good time!

burvantill · 10 Feb 2020, 04:35

This was a great class and great company. Thankyou @Braden-Hallett for organizing it. You always do such a great job
I did one more silhouette with multiple light sources because I failed with the gate image.

As a personal final assignment I’m going to color Will Terry’s cabin kitchen drawing from the downloads. Anyone want to do a final with me?

braden H · 10 Feb 2020, 14:22

@burvantill said in Painting colour and light group runthrough week 9!:

As a personal final assignment I’m going to color Will Terry’s cabin kitchen drawing from the downloads.

I look forward to seeing it! I think I'm just gonna keep up the momentum with the little studies. They seem to be helping

Coley · 10 Feb 2020, 16:59

I'm going to attempt to do another study or two of each one so it sinks in more

thanks @Braden-Hallett for leading us through it the last 9 weeks! It sure pushed me to get the studies done

braden H · 10 Feb 2020, 17:50

@Coley You're welcome! I think the light studies will keep taking up a lot of my time, too