Lighting and shading Weekly Journal 35

Hello Everyone~
charlot-sweetie here going to talk alittle about how lighting and shading can help add feeling, impact and character.

I'm sure a lot of you have heard to never use black for shading.


I consider this as more of a suggestion than law, as there is so much more choice and effect you have, if you avoid using just black.

By using a colour with your palette or one complementary to it you can really help your picture pop.


The image above uses mostly blues and blacks, while it creates a feeling anger and darkness, it comes as looking muddy or dull. If the shadows were given more a red (as red is known for rage) tint the image would spring forward of the blue background and communicate the emotion through colour as well as facial expression (which the artist did great on).


This image has set a Split complimentary colour palette (Blue, Purple and Orange) The orange is mostly used as the shadow with the purple adds highlights. this helps the picture not only feel cohesive but helps draw the eye to the characters face.

The use of shadow and light are not exclusive they are always working together, so It's extra I'm important to know where your light source is and what is creating it.



The above picture just uses white as the light and black as the shadows, while the shadows and highlights do take note of where the light is coming from they don't add to the feeling of the picture, you just know the person is holding something bright. A better choice of palette and minimizing the background would help the the character standout and give the lighting more impact.

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In this image you can see 2 light sources, the moon and building window. If you look at the person you can see some areas (mostly top left) have yellow highlights while bottom right has orange highlights. seeing the character interact with the light of their environment helps immerse the viewer within the image.

Here are some awesome examples for shading and lighting from our awesome members.



Thanks for reading, maybe check out these related journals.
Pairing up colours! - Weekly Journal #4Hey we're back with another weekly journal and this time it's about pairing colours!
so all of us pretty much know the basics right? like the primary colours which are red, yellow, and blue and the secondary colours
which are orange, green, and purple and they originate from a mixture of two primary colours right? and then the rest tertiary is the whole colour wheel right?
It's all so confusing to chose different colours when you have such a wide range and on top of that they have to complement each other well! so we're gonna classify the colour wheel!
Think of it as painting!

Monochromatic
Colors that are shade or tint variations of the same hue. They can be used to portray a dramatic feel.
Complementary
Colours that are across from each other. They can be used to create vibrant effects
Split complimentary
Picking three colours like this creates
Double- Complimentary
Colours that appear in a cross.