They put the highlights on the dark part due to it making it seem like an orb or glass, and due to making it pop due to color value/high contrast, it's not just that 'if it looks good it is good', there's logic to it.
About the highlight on the hair. It's not as simple as being "anime things" or "can be put anywhere" but rather, it's about light source. Assuming there are only two light source on the example being drawn... It just so happen that the back light source is brighter than the front one but you can still put highlight on the "shadow" side (dimmer light source) *because* there is still light bouncing off of it. Remember, the reason we see things is because light is bouncing off of it. So, yeah... highlight on hair _can_ be put anywhere *where* light is present. Also, _"Remember that the lightest shadow should be darker than the darkest light. That is a confusing statement.. Basically make sure that no shadow is lighter than any directly lit area."_ -Stan Prokopenko
I saw some other comments mention the discrepancy about the highlights in the shadow, but it's actually commonly referred to as the reflected light or secondary light. The main light source in your picture drawn is the rim light around the top of the head. The more intensity or surface area it covers, it can be almost considered a directional light. The shine to the hair is through a spotlight effect of a secondary light, usually bounced off a nearby source to illuminate the ambient contours of a 3D figure. The reason why it appears to be spotlight is because the shine is concentrated (small band of highlight) vs a diffuse lighting. Bounce lights can also be directional i.e. from a strong light above reflecting on the ground, giving the entire bottom of the figure a diffuse glow. If you're interested more about lighting, I would recommend using these keywords to search.
Amazing tutorial, I hope you can demonstrate more Chinese art tutorials as theres so much knowledge there thats inaccessible to the EN speaking audience!
Eye tutorial please. This video was really helpful, and I love seeing the Bilibili videos, but it does get overwhelming to try and figure out everything. Thanks so much for the video!
There's a japanese book for eyes which is called [きらめく瞳の描き方] or "How to Draw Bright Eyes". It's basically a step-by-step tutorial on how various artists paint, or draw their eyes. There's a lot of varying styles so you can pretty much mix and match however you want or stick to one and modify it. Don't get fooled by the title, some art style there are not "bright" at all. It's in Japanese though but I just used google lens to translate each page and it works pretty fine. I highly recommend this book. I wish there's one for hair though lmao
Highlights in the "shadow" part do make sense In artistic compositions, you often have a large/global source and a smaller opposing spotlight source. A scene will be more interesting with different light sources, and especially different exposures, temperatures, or even hues: You might have a warm candle-lit room contrasting with a colder highlights from a phone display shining on the front of a face, or a magenta outdoor neon sign from a nightclub creating highlights on the top of someone's hair while their face is blueish from moonlight. The choice of color can be an interesting factor to play around with, changing the light, shadow and highlight colors on your character depending on events happening around them.
Nice! This is like a cheat sheet! This is the type of tutorial content ive been looking for! Not just "practice practice practice" but practical techniques to apply. Please keep making more content like this! Subscribed!
been struggling a long time with hair like this and you broke it down perfectly which made it a lot more manageable for me. also, the brushes are just lovely. bless you and thank you so so so much for your work :)
"I translated the gist of this video from China to english and have brushes you can download for free so you can follow along too!" Not all heroes wear capes 🙌
@@CunnyVirus I'm pretty much in the same situation. Thankfully I can sometimes understand a little bit of the characters due to kanji knowledge. But I think I might want to start studying chinese as well. Mostly for bilibili
I really love that you dissect every little details possible. So many tut will just say, do this method but didnt really tell how to really use the brush. Im so glad
What you called the transitioner/terminator color is actually the subsurface scattering. Its when light enters the object and reflects back out, usually resulting in a faint glow where shadow begins. You see this effect in real life when you hold your fingers to a light source, they glow red on the edges
4:30 The highlights in the shadow make it "look better" because of 2 reasons I think. It makes the head look round but it also gives the idea of glossy hair. Indoors, shiny hair can have the primary lighting from above like you have here, but it can have another, lower, curved, stripe from a bright horizontal light source (a window, for example). If you look at real hair photos, you'll see that curve is usually curved up if the camera is above the subject's head as in your drawing. So this highlight in your drawing would be coming from above the horizontal (that could also happen indoors, of course). It doesn't make as much sense if the subject is outside unless there's some sort of side lighting or reflection off some object. So if you're doing it outside in natural lighting, maybe just make it less intense but still visible enough to show the rounded shape of the hair-or bring the light source forward so the terminator line is more in front and you don't need the extra highlight to show roundedness.
yes. Thank u for bridging the gap, this is the coloring style I've been wanting to do but can't get it quite right, all hail bilibili i want to learn chinese
regardless if you like kemono furries or not, billibilli is like the only website where I can find kemono furry content. I dont like normal furries or normal furries typically are. Im much more into kemono furrys, the community around them just feels a lot different and the furry style in my opinion is much cuter
I am convinced that the best manga/anime and digital art tips are in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, and largely inaccessible to Westerners unless you go looking.
yes please! Id love different hairstyles. My style is a bit more semi realistic but I have wanted to incorporate simpler processes into my pieces for time. Thank you for this!!!
3-point lighting could explain the specular highlights. The first light (the “light source” in this example) would be the back light. Therefore, the specular highlights may come from either the key or fill lights.
5:25 Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think this is basically simulating a really simplified/abstracted version of subsurface scattering for the hair. Hair isn't 100% opaque so some light leaks through. You can also try making it closer to the sky color, or a blend of that and this technique as well!
If you did this and nothing but this, you could easily become huge. I know im not the only one who vpns into bilibili to watch art tutorials I can only visually follow along to. Just ask your fans what art tutorial they want to see you translate next and you would never run out of content. Keep up the great work!
We can’t thank this guy enough that he translated this for us non Chinese speakers. I noticed wonderful materials out there but I just couldn’t understand specially I’m a beginner.
1:17 It's a stylization of subsurface scattering. Studying and understanding this effect can help make it look really believable and pick the colors easier. 3:56 The "Halo" is the result of anisotropic reflections, it helps to learn how that works so it can be better adjusted to the head shape. It can be in the shadow side, that physically checks out. Usually there would be a halo from the main light source, but not necessarily. A halo in shadow just means there is a second bright object towards the camera. Think of how a mirror still shows reflections when in a shaded area, it's a similar concept. 4:51 this is more subsurface scattering, should realistically match the color of the shadow-light areas meeting, because it is caused by the same effect. some of it is more of a bounce light effect, particularly the soft grey light being shone at her from the camera. 5:50 is called ambient occlusion
Thank you this was very helpful! For a potential part two video, if you could demonstrate this technique on a male character (short hair) that would be great.
Oh that was very very interesting! I grew up in russian speaking art circles and this video is very much reminiscent of the tutorials I've seen being shared around VKontakte. We very much love Chinese artists and Chinese tutorials, albeit I don't think any videos were shared around, but I've seen A LOT of image type of tutorials like this one. CG Speak is one of the biggest Russian art youtubers today that I know of, and when he presents artists he loves most of them are Chinese Still, I learned a lot from this video and by this point I forgot most of what I saw in these VK tutorials, and I hope you continue to make more videos like this one! 非常感谢! 非常感謝!
I never even considered using the multiply like that for the hair! Holy cow! Finally a tutorial that legitimately makes sense to me. It legitimately helped. I always wondered how artists did the hair. Don't get me wrong, Westerners can do great works, but I definitely lean more towards our Eastern brethren. But I do appreciate this tutorial!!!
Perfect timing! I was working on a piece and was not satisfied with the hair colouring. Your analysis and breakdown seriously helped me 🙏 Keep up the great studies, I hope these types of your videos appear more often!
As someone who remembers a teacher telling me "well, let me figure out why this looks wrong... hmmm... all of your proportions look right, so this is technically correct, you did a great job. Sometimes what's correct doesn't always look good though." I appreciate the "If it looks good, THEN IT WORKS” so much
Translating Bilibili is a guaranteed way to make it big here, on big topics. I know one of the largest Honkai Star Rail content creators here simply just translates Bilibili. The overwhelming majority of his content comes straight from collecting and translating work of other Chinese Bilibili creators. Also some of your examples of good art are ones I alr😢have saved from ages ago. Good taste
Ty for the tutorial! This is super helpful, especially because I was just about to start on the hair for a 2D model. The only issue is, I'll have to section out the hair pieces >.< Wondering if I should just do it all together and cut afterwards or go piece by piece.
before i found this vid i shade similar like this, bc im lazy to watch some useful tutorials lmaoo but this is actually pretty helpful and it also can improve how i shade, thanks!
highlights actually may appear (and often they do) in the shadows highlights are an result of reflexive light depending on the angle of the observer take an object in real life, search the higlight in it, and move around the object, you'll see that the highlight position will change even when the light area will be the same
Hey! Fine art graduate here and I thought i'd step in and offer some feedback for newer artists that might try this tutorial and get confused if it doesn't 'look as good' as the tutorial. Here are some of my notes after following along with the video step by step; The midtone glow between shadow and light is usually caused by strong light sources. Turn on your phone's flashlight and hold it very close or underneath your hand, you'll realise the red edge to the bright highlights is from the transparency of your skin. Every other colour gets filtered out from the white light and red is the only wavelength of light not absorbed, for a quick science lesson on that. With the hair being brushed over by the skintone, this is called ambient occlusion and should mostly be in reverse. strong light hits surfaces and bounces leaving markers of its colour in softer shades wherever it bounces. In the video's case, the hair at the neck and back would lightly tint the back green. This can be stylised of course, but keep it in mind with strong colours and light sources if you want to render more. This video also didn't really mention different types of light depending on the scene. This tutorial would work fine for broad daylight but would stand out pretty badly in a night scene. With the intensity of light for this particular example, there should be some much darker shadows in places to give it proper contrast. This is sort of up to the artist and style, but if you want a rich looking scene balancing light and dark is very important. If you turned your entire piece greyscale, you should be clearly able to pick out shapes in the piece even if it's broken down to its most basic form. In summary this video is great for people wanting to make their work more marketable and perhaps a bit more flashy but overall skips a lot of fundamentals that artists should know in order to properly implement the techniques trying to be achieved. I would recommend artists like marco bucci and his 10 minute tutorial series of how to paint forms with contrast accurately if people want to improve with advice that applies to all art styles, not just anime. Art theory is a very solid base to have, and no amount of hacks will be enough to replace fundamental art knowledge of the basics. Colour theory along with understanding of light/dark can turn even basic drawings into masterpieces. That being said to the creator, thank you for sharing this cool video! It was certainly an interesting exercise in painting in a different way! I even learnt a few things, of what- and what not- to do for my own style of paintings. Thank you for your effort!
From what I see, its just understanding the basics on how stuff works. How the objects in 3 dimensions look, how light works on them, how the colors bounce off from stuff, how it passes though hair and other translucent objects, how the light changes the base color of an object (lets say in bright sunlight vs in the forest nearby river or etc) and so on. Those highlighs on the hair's shadow side might as well be a reflection from some shiny object, no its not just necessarily an anime thing. / just noticed someone mentioned in the comments already. Although there's really many things I've never noticed, or never gave a priority in portraits when drawing from real, or from photos that are more clear in anime drawings. Those make me go "oooh right..!" That said, what the hell is up with these layer thingies? I've got no idea still about layers, this video has many things to learn from. I still use my tablet as if it was a paper and some paint. Its a nice video, I like it, also a nice drawing.
good video im a noob artist coloring is pretty daunting but ig i probably make it over complicated it can be however it does not need to be so just following along might help a lot also thanks for files
5:12 that is just backlight, it worked because you already painted the main light source as backlight from the top left of the head. That is why the backlight for the hair works... if your main light source is from the side or have a dark background, it might look odd sometimes
the the law of metallics for the highlights. The darker areas are the most reflective. so you have light areas then you have dark areas with reflections of the light. human hair is not super metallic but it follows a similar principal.
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4:19 : **”If it looks good,THEN IT WORKS”**
Luv this
but your TA may cry
lmao every asian ever
a.k.a. Rule of Cool
Literally sounds like a person who formerly grieved when they tried drawing anime lol
bilibili is literally a bible for all anime artstyle tutorials :) saw this on my recommendation but im glad you're making this video!
Exactly! just only if I could understand Chinese 😭🙁🙁
@@Zauriah11 I'd like to teach you mandarin during my free times 😭
@@chaeroajomg pls teach me
@@ayaka3726 do you have discord? :)
they also have youtube videos of god artists being recommended regularly. unlike youtube that buries the video with their shitty algorithm.
i love mostly chinese artist style have candy/glass/shining like
SAMEEEEEE IM OBSSESED RN
nice art btw
Also their make up "douyin make up" the always the best because of the shiny/glassy
Its like 2010 pixiv era frozen in time, i miss those years
I found this out through the nsfw games on steam lmao
This feels like a secret I shouldn't know about.
This feel like I just discovered a hidden treasure only found in some deep forest dungeon
Fr like i feel like this is too dark web
Common knowledge for millions, but hidden away…
Its likes hes a spy, telling us their secret plans.
But its just art
Me trying to apply this on my paper :
👌
Reality : 🗿
They put the highlights on the dark part due to it making it seem like an orb or glass, and due to making it pop due to color value/high contrast, it's not just that 'if it looks good it is good', there's logic to it.
About the highlight on the hair.
It's not as simple as being "anime things" or "can be put anywhere" but rather, it's about light source. Assuming there are only two light source on the example being drawn... It just so happen that the back light source is brighter than the front one but you can still put highlight on the "shadow" side (dimmer light source) *because* there is still light bouncing off of it. Remember, the reason we see things is because light is bouncing off of it. So, yeah... highlight on hair _can_ be put anywhere *where* light is present.
Also, _"Remember that the lightest shadow should be darker than the darkest light. That is a confusing statement.. Basically make sure that no shadow is lighter than any directly lit area."_ -Stan Prokopenko
extremely underrated post
i see. thank you so much.
this. ofc the goal is to make something that looks good, but beginners should always know WHY they’re doing something they’re doing in their art
@@Leadvest true true true
@@grav3yardshawty Yes, knowing the WHYs is better than just learning the technique.
4:10 it does make sense because the "highlights" are reflexions of the environment in the hair, its a reflective material.
*You showing the brushes* ; *Me on Clip Studio Paint* "Sigh, but let's see if I can get something closer." LOL
oh does procreate/photoshop brushes not work in CSP?
@@KraymerArt They can't use them but we can look for similar brushes.
@@RikaRieGamingI think CSP already have feature to export photoshop brush as .abr extension for long time
photoshop can use procreate's brush?
@@CunnyVirus I'm not really sure since I never use procreate but as long as procreate brush can be exported as abr file, it's good to go
I saw some other comments mention the discrepancy about the highlights in the shadow, but it's actually commonly referred to as the reflected light or secondary light. The main light source in your picture drawn is the rim light around the top of the head. The more intensity or surface area it covers, it can be almost considered a directional light. The shine to the hair is through a spotlight effect of a secondary light, usually bounced off a nearby source to illuminate the ambient contours of a 3D figure. The reason why it appears to be spotlight is because the shine is concentrated (small band of highlight) vs a diffuse lighting. Bounce lights can also be directional i.e. from a strong light above reflecting on the ground, giving the entire bottom of the figure a diffuse glow. If you're interested more about lighting, I would recommend using these keywords to search.
I was gonna commment the exact thing but you got it first and better explained hhahaha
Amazing tutorial, I hope you can demonstrate more Chinese art tutorials as theres so much knowledge there thats inaccessible to the EN speaking audience!
Please dont ever delete this, I love it!!! A part 2 would be amazing :D
Eye tutorial please. This video was really helpful, and I love seeing the Bilibili videos, but it does get overwhelming to try and figure out everything. Thanks so much for the video!
There's a japanese book for eyes which is called [きらめく瞳の描き方] or "How to Draw Bright Eyes". It's basically a step-by-step tutorial on how various artists paint, or draw their eyes. There's a lot of varying styles so you can pretty much mix and match however you want or stick to one and modify it. Don't get fooled by the title, some art style there are not "bright" at all. It's in Japanese though but I just used google lens to translate each page and it works pretty fine.
I highly recommend this book. I wish there's one for hair though lmao
@@rbsalmon7895can you give the names for more? Like skin eyes etc
Highlights in the "shadow" part do make sense
In artistic compositions, you often have a large/global source and a smaller opposing spotlight source. A scene will be more interesting with different light sources, and especially different exposures, temperatures, or even hues: You might have a warm candle-lit room contrasting with a colder highlights from a phone display shining on the front of a face, or a magenta outdoor neon sign from a nightclub creating highlights on the top of someone's hair while their face is blueish from moonlight. The choice of color can be an interesting factor to play around with, changing the light, shadow and highlight colors on your character depending on events happening around them.
Nice! This is like a cheat sheet! This is the type of tutorial content ive been looking for!
Not just "practice practice practice" but practical techniques to apply. Please keep making more content like this!
Subscribed!
Amazing demonstration please make this a series
Please make more videos like this for those of us who don't know Chinese
This was one of the easiest hair tutorials for such gorgeous hair I ever seen
been struggling a long time with hair like this and you broke it down perfectly which made it a lot more manageable for me. also, the brushes are just lovely. bless you and thank you so so so much for your work :)
thank you for the kind words! :)
I call the hair in these illustrations gem hair, gems tend to absorb the light in this way.
"I translated the gist of this video from China to english and have brushes you can download for free so you can follow along too!" Not all heroes wear capes 🙌
The way he talk is so soothing i literally can't 😭
thanks. been in bilibili for years but I cant read chinese
Real shit
@@marselo1316 fr if it is japanese I can make do but chinese is hard
@@CunnyVirus I'm pretty much in the same situation. Thankfully I can sometimes understand a little bit of the characters due to kanji knowledge. But I think I might want to start studying chinese as well. Mostly for bilibili
I really love that you dissect every little details possible.
So many tut will just say, do this method but didnt really tell how to really use the brush. Im so glad
What you called the transitioner/terminator color is actually the subsurface scattering. Its when light enters the object and reflects back out, usually resulting in a faint glow where shadow begins.
You see this effect in real life when you hold your fingers to a light source, they glow red on the edges
I love watching Bilibili art tutorials, as well! ❤
As a total beginner noob I struggle alot with hair shading, thanks for this and I'd love a part 2, who would say no to extra content like this
I used to use their tutorials..... Even though i didnt understand it was pretty easy for the steps
4:30 The highlights in the shadow make it "look better" because of 2 reasons I think. It makes the head look round but it also gives the idea of glossy hair. Indoors, shiny hair can have the primary lighting from above like you have here, but it can have another, lower, curved, stripe from a bright horizontal light source (a window, for example). If you look at real hair photos, you'll see that curve is usually curved up if the camera is above the subject's head as in your drawing. So this highlight in your drawing would be coming from above the horizontal (that could also happen indoors, of course). It doesn't make as much sense if the subject is outside unless there's some sort of side lighting or reflection off some object. So if you're doing it outside in natural lighting, maybe just make it less intense but still visible enough to show the rounded shape of the hair-or bring the light source forward so the terminator line is more in front and you don't need the extra highlight to show roundedness.
This is really short and easy to understand! Thanks for sharing your wisdom! - An IbisPaintX user
yes. Thank u for bridging the gap, this is the coloring style I've been wanting to do but can't get it quite right, all hail bilibili i want to learn chinese
regardless if you like kemono furries or not, billibilli is like the only website where I can find kemono furry content. I dont like normal furries or normal furries typically are. Im much more into kemono furrys, the community around them just feels a lot different and the furry style in my opinion is much cuter
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL AAA
I'm pretty sure that the highlights in the shadows are supposed to be highlights from bounce lights because hair is highly reflective
I am convinced that the best manga/anime and digital art tips are in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, and largely inaccessible to Westerners unless you go looking.
I ALWAYS wanted to know how people draw this!!! could NEVER find it anywhere, THANK U!
the ear being part of the hair is a good detail :) lol, anyways, the tutorial is pretty good! tysm
yes please! Id love different hairstyles. My style is a bit more semi realistic but I have wanted to incorporate simpler processes into my pieces for time. Thank you for this!!!
3-point lighting could explain the specular highlights.
The first light (the “light source” in this example) would be the back light. Therefore, the specular highlights may come from either the key or fill lights.
5:25 Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think this is basically simulating a really simplified/abstracted version of subsurface scattering for the hair. Hair isn't 100% opaque so some light leaks through. You can also try making it closer to the sky color, or a blend of that and this technique as well!
😮 That was amazing, would love to see different hairstyles
If you did this and nothing but this, you could easily become huge. I know im not the only one who vpns into bilibili to watch art tutorials I can only visually follow along to. Just ask your fans what art tutorial they want to see you translate next and you would never run out of content.
Keep up the great work!
The lighter hair in the back where I'd normally add shadow is a complete game-changer for me!
I looove learning art from bilibili because I want to draw the chinese artstyle
I would love a tutorial similar to this but for more curly textures, especially African hair!
waaahh i was having problems with my rendering and this video was a life-saver
no way this actually helped me SO MUCH OMGHFJCJ THANK YOU SO MUCH
We can’t thank this guy enough that he translated this for us non Chinese speakers. I noticed wonderful materials out there but I just couldn’t understand specially I’m a beginner.
1:17 It's a stylization of subsurface scattering. Studying and understanding this effect can help make it look really believable and pick the colors easier.
3:56 The "Halo" is the result of anisotropic reflections, it helps to learn how that works so it can be better adjusted to the head shape. It can be in the shadow side, that physically checks out. Usually there would be a halo from the main light source, but not necessarily. A halo in shadow just means there is a second bright object towards the camera. Think of how a mirror still shows reflections when in a shaded area, it's a similar concept.
4:51 this is more subsurface scattering, should realistically match the color of the shadow-light areas meeting, because it is caused by the same effect. some of it is more of a bounce light effect, particularly the soft grey light being shone at her from the camera.
5:50 is called ambient occlusion
the "three sided shape" rule for hair shadows is pretty useful!
Little red book also has some really nice tutorials
wait i didnt know they had those
I've been searching a tutorial likes this for months, omg, thank you so much.🦇
You're an angel, sir.
I'll stay around for that applied-to-other-styles-tutorial
see 9:05 for steps listing:
1. big shadow
2. transitioning colour
3. depth shadow
4. sharp highlights
5. glow
6. definition shadows
I'm so happy. I know a little of canto, I've never seen people speak so softly before. Thanks! :)
holy these were all tricks i learned bit by bit overtime through many different artists but all in the same place within like 10 minutes
I found this tutorial really helpful and I hope you make another one on how to do this on other different hairstyles!:3❤❤
Thank you so much!!! :DD
I would love to see more, if you’re able to keep making these videos
please make this a series !!!
This might be the most useful art tutorial I've seen on YT, good job and thank you so much, it will help me a lot.
MY SAVIOUR!!!! I WANT THAT ART STYLE SO BAD
Thank you this was very helpful! For a potential part two video, if you could demonstrate this technique on a male character (short hair) that would be great.
Your artistic method of coloring is wonderful and uncomplicated
Oh that was very very interesting! I grew up in russian speaking art circles and this video is very much reminiscent of the tutorials I've seen being shared around VKontakte. We very much love Chinese artists and Chinese tutorials, albeit I don't think any videos were shared around, but I've seen A LOT of image type of tutorials like this one. CG Speak is one of the biggest Russian art youtubers today that I know of, and when he presents artists he loves most of them are Chinese
Still, I learned a lot from this video and by this point I forgot most of what I saw in these VK tutorials, and I hope you continue to make more videos like this one!
非常感谢! 非常感謝!
I wanted this video. Thanks bro ❤❤
thanks for vid editing , it makes easyer to understand in my head
The "highlights" in the shadows can be very bright reflected light, so it still makes sense
This was fantastic! I hope you share more tips like this for lighting and shadow
I never even considered using the multiply like that for the hair! Holy cow! Finally a tutorial that legitimately makes sense to me. It legitimately helped. I always wondered how artists did the hair. Don't get me wrong, Westerners can do great works, but I definitely lean more towards our Eastern brethren. But I do appreciate this tutorial!!!
Yes I would love an eye tutorial aswell, this looks amazing
Perfect timing! I was working on a piece and was not satisfied with the hair colouring. Your analysis and breakdown seriously helped me 🙏 Keep up the great studies, I hope these types of your videos appear more often!
As someone who remembers a teacher telling me "well, let me figure out why this looks wrong... hmmm... all of your proportions look right, so this is technically correct, you did a great job. Sometimes what's correct doesn't always look good though." I appreciate the "If it looks good, THEN IT WORKS” so much
Translating Bilibili is a guaranteed way to make it big here, on big topics. I know one of the largest Honkai Star Rail content creators here simply just translates Bilibili. The overwhelming majority of his content comes straight from collecting and translating work of other Chinese Bilibili creators. Also some of your examples of good art are ones I alr😢have saved from ages ago. Good taste
i love bilibili, learned to play the dizi from there and i appreciate people adding the jianpu notes to captions of videos
Ty for the tutorial! This is super helpful, especially because I was just about to start on the hair for a 2D model. The only issue is, I'll have to section out the hair pieces >.<
Wondering if I should just do it all together and cut afterwards or go piece by piece.
Incredible tutorial. It's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for explaining it in detail.
before i found this vid i shade similar like this, bc im lazy to watch some useful tutorials lmaoo but this is actually pretty helpful and it also can improve how i shade, thanks!
Thank you ! I took the psd file to try myself ! 👍
I unknowingly did many things the original artist recommended not knowing it was some pro stuff
I just did coz it looked good
More videos like these please its so interesting to watch
love this video! It would be amazing if there was something like this but for painting skin 💖
THIS IS THE EXACT TYPE OF SHADING VIDEO I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THANK YOU SO MUCH
highlights actually may appear (and often they do) in the shadows
highlights are an result of reflexive light depending on the angle of the observer
take an object in real life, search the higlight in it, and move around the object, you'll see that the highlight position will change even when the light area will be the same
This is a method popularly used in material making for anime npr in blender as well.
Its great seeing it applied here for 2d illustrations
Pls more tutorials like this!! I feel like on TH-cam the professional "anime-style" tutorials are really little
Hey! Fine art graduate here and I thought i'd step in and offer some feedback for newer artists that might try this tutorial and get confused if it doesn't 'look as good' as the tutorial. Here are some of my notes after following along with the video step by step;
The midtone glow between shadow and light is usually caused by strong light sources. Turn on your phone's flashlight and hold it very close or underneath your hand, you'll realise the red edge to the bright highlights is from the transparency of your skin. Every other colour gets filtered out from the white light and red is the only wavelength of light not absorbed, for a quick science lesson on that.
With the hair being brushed over by the skintone, this is called ambient occlusion and should mostly be in reverse. strong light hits surfaces and bounces leaving markers of its colour in softer shades wherever it bounces. In the video's case, the hair at the neck and back would lightly tint the back green. This can be stylised of course, but keep it in mind with strong colours and light sources if you want to render more.
This video also didn't really mention different types of light depending on the scene. This tutorial would work fine for broad daylight but would stand out pretty badly in a night scene. With the intensity of light for this particular example, there should be some much darker shadows in places to give it proper contrast. This is sort of up to the artist and style, but if you want a rich looking scene balancing light and dark is very important. If you turned your entire piece greyscale, you should be clearly able to pick out shapes in the piece even if it's broken down to its most basic form.
In summary this video is great for people wanting to make their work more marketable and perhaps a bit more flashy but overall skips a lot of fundamentals that artists should know in order to properly implement the techniques trying to be achieved. I would recommend artists like marco bucci and his 10 minute tutorial series of how to paint forms with contrast accurately if people want to improve with advice that applies to all art styles, not just anime. Art theory is a very solid base to have, and no amount of hacks will be enough to replace fundamental art knowledge of the basics. Colour theory along with understanding of light/dark can turn even basic drawings into masterpieces.
That being said to the creator, thank you for sharing this cool video! It was certainly an interesting exercise in painting in a different way! I even learnt a few things, of what- and what not- to do for my own style of paintings. Thank you for your effort!
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From what I see, its just understanding the basics on how stuff works. How the objects in 3 dimensions look, how light works on them, how the colors bounce off from stuff, how it passes though hair and other translucent objects, how the light changes the base color of an object (lets say in bright sunlight vs in the forest nearby river or etc) and so on.
Those highlighs on the hair's shadow side might as well be a reflection from some shiny object, no its not just necessarily an anime thing. / just noticed someone mentioned in the comments already.
Although there's really many things I've never noticed, or never gave a priority in portraits when drawing from real, or from photos that are more clear in anime drawings. Those make me go "oooh right..!"
That said, what the hell is up with these layer thingies? I've got no idea still about layers, this video has many things to learn from. I still use my tablet as if it was a paper and some paint.
Its a nice video, I like it, also a nice drawing.
i’m struggling with coloring, etc. this video really helps a lot, thank you! hope to see an eye tutorial!
Thank you for the helpful tips!❤
Definitely wanna see on another hairstyle! Thanks for sharing!
good video im a noob artist coloring is pretty daunting but ig i probably make it over complicated it can be however it does not need to be so just following along might help a lot also thanks for files
I think the highlights on the shadow part looks better simply cause of the bigger gap of value aka contrast.
This is so incredibly helpful and informative and I found this video by accident, thanks 🙏
抖抖村 is a bilibili art creator that’s also here on TH-cam, they’re humorous as well as provide useful tips
Thanks for the awesome video! Eye tutorial sounds great
5:12 that is just backlight, it worked because you already painted the main light source as backlight from the top left of the head. That is why the backlight for the hair works... if your main light source is from the side or have a dark background, it might look odd sometimes
I'm forever indebted to you, this was very helpful
This video was thorough and easy to follow, I really enjoyed this, please make a part 2. 🙏
the the law of metallics for the highlights. The darker areas are the most reflective. so you have light areas then you have dark areas with reflections of the light. human hair is not super metallic but it follows a similar principal.