"Art is never finished. only abandoned" - Leonardo Da Vinci. This helped me a lot with how I think about images now. The one thing I always struggle with is lighting a scene properly in Cinema 4D. It drives me insane, and easily what I spend the most time on. Thank you!
He and Marco bucci are truly doing gods work. They are actually putting out topics that artists want. Proko was one of them but it seems he is too busy with managing his 'brand' Ethan Becker is like a teacher to semi-professionals/ professionals, covering advanced topics.
I immediately thought of Marco Bucci when I started watching this video He recently did a very similar video to this one about rendering in layers. Marco talks about light in technical terms with shadow tones, halftones, ambient occlusion etc. A lot of theory which is great. This video carries much of the same info but in, what some might find, a more straightforward, practical, and accessible way. Both are good.
Gradient maps are great for blocking in color, but not getting a finished piece. It basically looks at your grayscale values and assigns colors to them based on what you select. It’s useful because you can make adjustments to your values if you want, you get your main colors into your piece super quick, and you can get hue variation in really easily (like shifting temperature cooler as you go into shadows). You don’t want to stop after the gradient map though, it affects your entire scene so going back on top with color layers to bring more contrast to your subjects is something almost mandatory.
I really appreciate your almost scientific breakdowns on painting techniques and concepts. It really helps to understand how things are done vs. going by feeling! Also it's great that you admit to being a student yourself and it doesn't lessen the impact on any tips and tricks you show us. Learning is a life-long commitment!
Hi Boro your channel has helped me a lot but I think of all the topics you touch on Lighting is definitely the one where your videos have been the most helpful, because I feel you are really passionate about lighting and you explain it at such level of detail that no one else does.
Boro CG: Thank you for your videos! I´ve been seen your channel since 2018. Now that i finally have a display tablet I did pass last 72 hours reviewing your videos and drawing as crazy. Men your brushwork exploration it´s just fe-no-me-nal! I draw on b & w since 3 years old but paint in color just overwelming me so much. Until now! I hope soon be a part of your patreons!! Long live to Borodante! regards from México!
I bought a little picasso tablet on Amazon and I've been watching all your videos. You're awesome, talented, and knowledgeable. Thank you so much for your teachings.
Ok, so i have a confess that i must to say: You're my favourite Artist. Just- i really want to improve in my art. You inspire a lot and your art style is just pure gold. Keep up with the good work!
I haven’t had any time to paint in ages, but been watching you nonstop now for couple months. Once my game project finishes,I got to take couple of months and just paint
this video has shown me that i need to make some pieces with harsh lighting. I always try to push my lighting in the final steps by adding more shadows and highlights but i ought to try something more extreme to branch out. Thanks Boro! This series has been giving me a lot of food for thought :)
Terminators... I can already see myself again drawing in the pub when the lockdowns are gone... only thanks to YOU I will constantly catch myself going "Dada Da DaDA" while shading.
Thanks a lot for the great video tutorial, my friend. I didn‘t know your videos/channel until today but I guess all this leads to me subscribing by today‘s evening 😅. Btw your artwork is awesome from what I‘ve seen by now!! I‘ll keep watching. Have a good one 🤘🏻🤘🤘🏾🤘🏿👽✨
Damn... this comment just spoiled me as an anime only fan.. and the fact that it's coming from a vid that literally has nothing to do with AOT. What are the odds.
love watching you create ur art, you do such good work and is a damn joy to watch. And not to forget, do really help out, and this light talk is much needed thank you. Great work!
i love that you do these videos borro. but dont forget that the shart terminatiors are also definded by the shape fo the hole that light is coming through since your in a cave or whatever it would be !
I'm a hobbyist when it comes to drawing, but I always enjoy improving it. I'll definitely take this video's information into consideration when drawing. Thanks for the help!
I would highly recommend to anyone in digital or traditional mediums to play with actual light. Physically setting up different lights in actual environments creates learning experiences that will never be forgotten. An easy way to start is with small a maquette. If you try to re-create what you have in your head with actual lights, you will find out what is and isn't possible and therefore, what has to be enhanced with imagination. Plus by doing so, you won't be constantly glued to a computer screen.
gradient map + layer mask! you can get rich hue shifts and easily adjust the intensity of light/dark for different materials! i like to make a gradient map, then use a soft airbrush on the mask to gently apply it where i want it, rather than blocking in harsh edges. the neutral/uncolored zones will actually work to your advantage and make the image look more 'mature', in my opinion.
As amazing as always. "Focal lights" as you call them can be even more complex: torchs, leds, incandescent, fluorescence... Each one of them cast a completely different light. A video on this subject would be very useful.
Hi Boro, I am quite intrested in what you do in this sky light color. Mainly in the way you painted the character, because I really want to know how to use the basic values, only using black and whites. Whereas the most interesting part for me, is how did you do the values in this painting. I am practicing with rererences like pictures, but I am also interested in color that are only in greys, not that white and not that black. If you have any video with a similar content, this is the process I need to lear at this point. Thanks.
On the topic of gradient maps - I usually put color mode gradient maps above my values and only define light and shadow colors with them (mid-ranges set to almost 100% white so they don't really affect anything). Every color you then paint over them in overlay/color mode automatically has the right light and shadow colors. It makes everything look much more precise, imo.
The area where the light meets the terminator will tend to be more saturated, especially in sunlight and with subsurface scattering. You will often get a rather saturated "band" right along the light side of the terminator.
if you want you can mask out gradient maps to use separate ones for different objects or materials. bit too much bother for me personally but the option is there lol
Lol, we use gradient maps as masks / masked layers all the time. You would make one for skin tones, for fabrics/clothing, for individual objects, the works.
Ok i'm really thankful with you and your videos, you have a very simple and humble way for explaining things. You recognize your own mistakes and this way you validate the fact that this is part of everyone process. I have many issues with ligthing, sincerely xD and i find it hard to understand it, so your video helped me a lot figuring out a ton of things i can enhance :D and i think that's another good point of your video: it's about understanding -> practicing -> to get better :D thank you!
could you doa video where you go into full detail of how every layer you have set up in this draw is and what each one is for and how muc h because i feeel like this is one thing im having trouble with with digital painting is what layers are for what and i learned from this video the ones for light and what light but id like to see how you set each one up
Thank you for this! Definitely one of the things I struggle a lot with is lighting and how lighting changes depending on the environment. This helped me gain a better understanding of how to build up the light in my paintings.
Great video and I'm sure it's going to help a lot of artists! I'm glad to see you tackling the issue (I remember writing a lengthy comment on this subject under one of the Black Widow videos before and it is definitely a common and difficult thing to work with, I feel you there), but I feel like it could have used a few more rules to remember: The edges get sharper the closer to the light they are, and making them soft when necessary is going to help with the perspective, (for example in this case, with the foreshortened arm). It's also important not to forget to make the edge of the shadow the darkest part of the shadow, and to then add the reflections underneath. Yeah, you want to keep the reflections darker than anything in the light, but making them disappear entirely is going to kill some of the 3d shape. Random thought: I have mixed feelings about using these cool Photoshop techniques to help with the lighting etc. I feel like using Photoshop to do the work for you might hinder the artist's own understanding of the fundamentals and what exactly is going on. Every decision in the painting should be carefully and consciously made, and imo doing it "with your own hand" makes it easier to learn, whether that's through pencil drawing, or digital painting, or anything else. It might help with the workload, but for studying it seems like an unnecessary shortcut to what the purpose of the piece is: learning. All that being said, great video as always and looking forward to seeing how the painting progresses!
Brightness Decay sounds much better than "gradients" (I believe you used gradients for the same concept) Anyways. Pretty cool. Now I can explain this thing with one word instead of one sentence.
Terminators... Thank you for making me realise I should remember about them. For some reason I can draw them quite well on paper but completely forget about their existence in digital.
1:28 Skylight = Light from thick white (not grey thunderclouds) clouds and they have 100% sky coverage, happens at noon Sunlight = sunny beach light Local Light = Light bulbs in rando locations and rando light watts on each bulb
Не знаю английского, но вы настолько доходчиво объясняете, что я даже начал что-то понимать. Спасибо. PS Искал видео на тему "Сварка электродом для новичков". Как работают алгоритмы ютуба?
Haven't seen your content for a long time now. But I noticed you switched from a screen tablet to just a tablet (as did I like 2-3 years ago). Any particular reason? My reason is that I got annoyed that my hand was in the way, and I was much less prone to get accidental shapes and details. Only seeing the cursor made me much more fluent and organic while painting or sculpting, since my hand is now only going by feeling
Insanely insightful video as always!! Thank you for doing these 🙏😁 btw, I’m a lot more focused on environment fundamentals than character, so my anatomy knowledge is not very on point, but I feel like one of the reasons your terminators are looking weird is because of anatomy? Like at least to me it seems really confusing from that angle, I can’t really figure out what’s happening in that shoulder region, where the trapezius begins and ends, where the deltoid begins and ends and where the biceps begins and ends, and how they insert into and come out of each other. To me it seems like your terminator is just a straight line going diagonally up to the right of the picture graphically, and doesn’t show much form. If the lighting is coming from above, wouldn’t the terminators in each form be mostly horizontal, so with the arm going up like that the forms would intersect and the terminator would look like a staircase almost? Also not sure you were already intending on that but the shadows seem too colorless to me, like there’s no sky color ir ambient light color, just sky light, as if the whole environment were completely pale. Please take this with a grain of salt, you’re a lot better than I am at this and I learned a lot from you haha maybe it’s just things that we see more easily from the outside. Maybe try and get some references of people in a similar pose and similar camera angle to figure that out. But maybe I’m completely wrong and you can disregard everything I said haha 😅
@@MistaManlyGuy it is, of course!!! not trying to diminish what he says, as I said, it’s really insightful! I was just trying to see if I could help with the terminator problem he mentioned :)
I use art puppets under directional lighting a lot to assist with my lighting. I recreate the pose I’m doing and put the light where I want it. It’s very helpful
This is a very helpful video. I like how organized your thinking is. One rule of thumb that I have always used is something Craig Mullins said: cast shadows are hard shadows (unless the light is behind a diffuser or similar) and form shadows are soft shadows.
i really like the way you said that your painting have many mistakes, since i think every professional artist just make a little mistakes and never talk it, like they keep their own mistakes to theirs, but hearing you said those word make you look more human than i thought before thanks, it give me hope
I really like your videos and your artwork, however speaking as an animator, I have no time to mess around with layer effects to get the kind of colours i want I just paint with the colours I want, I feel as though its bad advise to give to other artist's that oh a layer filter will just correct your bland colour choice and incorrect shading when you could have just painted with the colour from the start. But even so good job on the painting it looks sick =)
fun fact about sunlight ( I hope I get this right, I'm not a scientist): The sun is really far away, but it's also really really big. Because it's surface area is so much wider than the earth, and all of that area is emitting light, the edges of shadows cast by sunlight get fuzzy as more light comes from further beside the object to dilute the shadow. It has something to do with the earth's penumbra, if you look that up you might get more information. This is also why the shadows of objects that are further away (for example, a big tower) will get fuzzier. If you walk up to a tower, at the base there will be a sharp edge but far away where the tip of the tower is casting a shadow, that shadow will be fuzzier. That's the best way I can explain it :P This also happens with really thin objects, so wire fences and tree branches will not have defined edges in their shadows. I just noticed this going on a walk in a park and a friend sent a paper explaining it in more detail
Me, who does not have Photoshop and don't know how to paint like this: "Yes, the terminator is fine. Maybe I should use more Color Dodge Layers as well."
i find it weird that i'm able to recreate my desired light effects on any 3D object but when i paint, everything has too much contrast. Maybe it's cuz in 3D, i have the software lighting my object automatically whereas i have to manually "create" the lighting effect...
"Most Artists Have BIG Problems With Sunlight"
Me: Yes, I have.
Me: In my painting, too.
jesus these flixzone bots
:D hahahaha
Me too
@@frankdrawsnear wym ?
I certainly have a problem with sunlight, namely that i cant see anything on my hecking screen when it hits it lmao
"Art is never finished. only abandoned" - Leonardo Da Vinci. This helped me a lot with how I think about images now. The one thing I always struggle with is lighting a scene properly in Cinema 4D. It drives me insane, and easily what I spend the most time on. Thank you!
He and Marco bucci are truly doing gods work. They are actually putting out topics that artists want.
Proko was one of them but it seems he is too busy with managing his 'brand'
Ethan Becker is like a teacher to semi-professionals/ professionals, covering advanced topics.
I immediately thought of Marco Bucci when I started watching this video He recently did a very similar video to this one about rendering in layers. Marco talks about light in technical terms with shadow tones, halftones, ambient occlusion etc. A lot of theory which is great. This video carries much of the same info but in, what some might find, a more straightforward, practical, and accessible way. Both are good.
Gradient maps are great for blocking in color, but not getting a finished piece. It basically looks at your grayscale values and assigns colors to them based on what you select. It’s useful because you can make adjustments to your values if you want, you get your main colors into your piece super quick, and you can get hue variation in really easily (like shifting temperature cooler as you go into shadows). You don’t want to stop after the gradient map though, it affects your entire scene so going back on top with color layers to bring more contrast to your subjects is something almost mandatory.
I really appreciate your almost scientific breakdowns on painting techniques and concepts. It really helps to understand how things are done vs. going by feeling! Also it's great that you admit to being a student yourself and it doesn't lessen the impact on any tips and tricks you show us. Learning is a life-long commitment!
Hi Boro your channel has helped me a lot but I think of all the topics you touch on Lighting is definitely the one where your videos have been the most helpful, because I feel you are really passionate about lighting and you explain it at such level of detail that no one else does.
Listening to your analysis about lighting and rendering is always a blessing my boi 👍
Boro CG: Thank you for your videos! I´ve been seen your channel since 2018. Now that i finally have a display tablet I did pass last 72 hours reviewing your videos and drawing as crazy. Men your brushwork exploration it´s just fe-no-me-nal! I draw on b & w since 3 years old but paint in color just overwelming me so much. Until now! I hope soon be a part of your patreons!! Long live to Borodante! regards from México!
Boro is the real Jedi master for painting
i wish my teachers told me this..but oh well, finally someone explained this in a manner I understand
There is one specific style of shading that comes to mind, when searching for good practice in defining the terminator: cell-shading.
I bought a little picasso tablet on Amazon and I've been watching all your videos. You're awesome, talented, and knowledgeable. Thank you so much for your teachings.
dude ive been following for a while and your setup and presentation now is insanely good
best class on lighting that I've ever watched
Ok, so i have a confess that i must to say:
You're my favourite Artist. Just- i really want to improve in my art. You inspire a lot and your art style is just pure gold.
Keep up with the good work!
I haven’t had any time to paint in ages, but been watching you nonstop now for couple months. Once my game project finishes,I got to take couple of months and just paint
this video has shown me that i need to make some pieces with harsh lighting. I always try to push my lighting in the final steps by adding more shadows and highlights but i ought to try something more extreme to branch out. Thanks Boro! This series has been giving me a lot of food for thought :)
Terminators...
I can already see myself again drawing in the pub when the lockdowns are gone... only thanks to YOU I will constantly catch myself going
"Dada Da DaDA" while shading.
i love this painting a lot!! i think it's my favorite work of yours and you should definitely finish it, if you feel like it ofc
this video is gonna be atleast at a million one day
Thanks a lot for the great video tutorial, my friend. I didn‘t know your videos/channel until today but I guess all this leads to me subscribing by today‘s evening 😅.
Btw your artwork is awesome from what I‘ve seen by now!! I‘ll keep watching. Have a good one 🤘🏻🤘🤘🏾🤘🏿👽✨
And here i was struggling with lighting on my current piece. Thank you!!! 😁
Really efficient demo and lesson! Thanks as always for sharing your insights!
No clue if this was intentionally, but your facecam lighting supported everything so well
Great vid
Here before the video gets any dislikes.
To be honest, I've learned so much from this channel, damn.
I've only gone through one or two of your vids so far but these are so helpful, thank you!
Nice Mecha Eren you got there! :)
haha I thought it was Eren too
facts
I was about to comment that 🤣
Damn... this comment just spoiled me as an anime only fan.. and the fact that it's coming from a vid that literally has nothing to do with AOT. What are the odds.
@@dg_dmtll What did I spoiled exactly? The design of Eren in the furute? Does it really matter? Chill out man
Dude that was SO useful and well put!
Please keep working on it, we are learning so much with this one
love watching you create ur art, you do such good work and is a damn joy to watch. And not to forget, do really help out, and this light talk is much needed thank you. Great work!
This was really helpful! Thank you for making this video! :)
Thank you for so great art tips Boro! It was interesting to watch :)
You managed to make the colors and the final image look incredible, all things considered. Great step up from the last video.
It's just a finished process
Nice tips and great picture, I’d like to see it finished!
i love that you do these videos borro. but dont forget that the shart terminatiors are also definded by the shape fo the hole that light is coming through since your in a cave or whatever it would be !
I'm a hobbyist when it comes to drawing, but I always enjoy improving it. I'll definitely take this video's information into consideration when drawing. Thanks for the help!
I see this channel for the first time and I've already made sure to leave a sub
I would highly recommend to anyone in digital or traditional mediums to play with actual light. Physically setting up different lights in actual environments creates learning experiences that will never be forgotten. An easy way to start is with small a maquette. If you try to re-create what you have in your head with actual lights, you will find out what is and isn't possible and therefore, what has to be enhanced with imagination. Plus by doing so, you won't be constantly glued to a computer screen.
gradient map + layer mask!
you can get rich hue shifts and easily adjust the intensity of light/dark for different materials! i like to make a gradient map, then use a soft airbrush on the mask to gently apply it where i want it, rather than blocking in harsh edges. the neutral/uncolored zones will actually work to your advantage and make the image look more 'mature', in my opinion.
also you can check out marc brunet's videos for an example, he colors using gradient maps
This is so technical... my head hurts. But thank you so much on explaining things!
Exactly what I needed to see/hear .. Thank You
What a cool creation you got there, I never know someone who loves to draw dark art style in my entire life. Auto subs and like from me.
man's production value goes crazy
Excellently and brilliantly explained! You must have been a photographer (I mean a photographer that actually studies light) before illustrator.
That is really useful Boro😍, I hope you can do different types of lightings also...
Very interesting insight and also very helpful
I think lighting is a consistent issue for artists of all levels. We all need to consistently revisit and learn from. Great topic!
As amazing as always. "Focal lights" as you call them can be even more complex: torchs, leds, incandescent, fluorescence... Each one of them cast a completely different light. A video on this subject would be very useful.
This was really insightful, this breakdown really helps a lot.
btw everything to do with light and shadow is really hard to grasp
Hi Boro, I am quite intrested in what you do in this sky light color. Mainly in the way you painted the character, because I really want to know how to use the basic values, only using black and whites. Whereas the most interesting part for me, is how did you do the values in this painting. I am practicing with rererences like pictures, but I am also interested in color that are only in greys, not that white and not that black.
If you have any video with a similar content, this is the process I need to lear at this point.
Thanks.
Thank you for the video, your videos are really helpful
On the topic of gradient maps - I usually put color mode gradient maps above my values and only define light and shadow colors with them (mid-ranges set to almost 100% white so they don't really affect anything). Every color you then paint over them in overlay/color mode automatically has the right light and shadow colors. It makes everything look much more precise, imo.
Great video as always!
hahaha, i feel you Mr. BoroCG! Thank you for the video.
Thank you.
The area where the light meets the terminator will tend to be more saturated, especially in sunlight and with subsurface scattering. You will often get a rather saturated "band" right along the light side of the terminator.
Thank you Boro!
if you want you can mask out gradient maps to use separate ones for different objects or materials. bit too much bother for me personally but the option is there lol
Sir, you really need to look into the concepts of gradient maps with masks. It's a lot more versatile than you think.
Thanks!
Lol, we use gradient maps as masks / masked layers all the time. You would make one for skin tones, for fabrics/clothing, for individual objects, the works.
Yes please finish the painting
it's funny bc you say "man I should do more studies of light" while your face right beside it actually shows the perfect study to do
This is so helpful! :D
This is amazing thank you so much :D
Whenever you say 'terminators' I am foolish and I think you're talking about the robots but I am so glad you clarify what they are.
I like to use lighting terminators and then blend them according to the material.
Ok i'm really thankful with you and your videos, you have a very simple and humble way for explaining things. You recognize your own mistakes and this way you validate the fact that this is part of everyone process. I have many issues with ligthing, sincerely xD and i find it hard to understand it, so your video helped me a lot figuring out a ton of things i can enhance :D and i think that's another good point of your video: it's about understanding -> practicing -> to get better :D thank you!
I don't know WHO would dislike this lolll
could you doa video where you go into full detail of how every layer you have set up in this draw is and what each one is for and how muc h because i feeel like this is one thing im having trouble with with digital painting is what layers are for what and i learned from this video the ones for light and what light but id like to see how you set each one up
very very helpful
Thank you for this! Definitely one of the things I struggle a lot with is lighting and how lighting changes depending on the environment. This helped me gain a better understanding of how to build up the light in my paintings.
Great video and I'm sure it's going to help a lot of artists! I'm glad to see you tackling the issue (I remember writing a lengthy comment on this subject under one of the Black Widow videos before and it is definitely a common and difficult thing to work with, I feel you there), but I feel like it could have used a few more rules to remember: The edges get sharper the closer to the light they are, and making them soft when necessary is going to help with the perspective, (for example in this case, with the foreshortened arm). It's also important not to forget to make the edge of the shadow the darkest part of the shadow, and to then add the reflections underneath. Yeah, you want to keep the reflections darker than anything in the light, but making them disappear entirely is going to kill some of the 3d shape.
Random thought: I have mixed feelings about using these cool Photoshop techniques to help with the lighting etc. I feel like using Photoshop to do the work for you might hinder the artist's own understanding of the fundamentals and what exactly is going on. Every decision in the painting should be carefully and consciously made, and imo doing it "with your own hand" makes it easier to learn, whether that's through pencil drawing, or digital painting, or anything else. It might help with the workload, but for studying it seems like an unnecessary shortcut to what the purpose of the piece is: learning.
All that being said, great video as always and looking forward to seeing how the painting progresses!
@Domestika please give this man a course
this is big stonks information
Brightness Decay sounds much better than "gradients" (I believe you used gradients for the same concept)
Anyways. Pretty cool. Now I can explain this thing with one word instead of one sentence.
Much appreciated!
Terminators... Thank you for making me realise I should remember about them. For some reason I can draw them quite well on paper but completely forget about their existence in digital.
1:28
Skylight = Light from thick white (not grey thunderclouds) clouds and they have 100% sky coverage, happens at noon
Sunlight = sunny beach light
Local Light = Light bulbs in rando locations and rando light watts on each bulb
I needed this
Awesome vid but the second arm in the background is looking a bit weird in my opinion so does the hand it is hard to tell on which side the thumb is
Hey! I don't know anything about digital art but I really want to start doing it. How should I start?
Eren yaeger from attack on titan 😯
Btw thank you, this helps me a lot 👍👍
i thought same man
And Nagato uzumaki
Не знаю английского, но вы настолько доходчиво объясняете, что я даже начал что-то понимать. Спасибо.
PS Искал видео на тему "Сварка электродом для новичков". Как работают алгоритмы ютуба?
super useful !!
Haven't seen your content for a long time now. But I noticed you switched from a screen tablet to just a tablet (as did I like 2-3 years ago). Any particular reason?
My reason is that I got annoyed that my hand was in the way, and I was much less prone to get accidental shapes and details. Only seeing the cursor made me much more fluent and organic while painting or sculpting, since my hand is now only going by feeling
Insanely insightful video as always!! Thank you for doing these 🙏😁 btw, I’m a lot more focused on environment fundamentals than character, so my anatomy knowledge is not very on point, but I feel like one of the reasons your terminators are looking weird is because of anatomy? Like at least to me it seems really confusing from that angle, I can’t really figure out what’s happening in that shoulder region, where the trapezius begins and ends, where the deltoid begins and ends and where the biceps begins and ends, and how they insert into and come out of each other. To me it seems like your terminator is just a straight line going diagonally up to the right of the picture graphically, and doesn’t show much form. If the lighting is coming from above, wouldn’t the terminators in each form be mostly horizontal, so with the arm going up like that the forms would intersect and the terminator would look like a staircase almost? Also not sure you were already intending on that but the shadows seem too colorless to me, like there’s no sky color ir ambient light color, just sky light, as if the whole environment were completely pale. Please take this with a grain of salt, you’re a lot better than I am at this and I learned a lot from you haha maybe it’s just things that we see more easily from the outside. Maybe try and get some references of people in a similar pose and similar camera angle to figure that out. But maybe I’m completely wrong and you can disregard everything I said haha 😅
Everything he says is still invaluable, luckily :D
@@MistaManlyGuy it is, of course!!! not trying to diminish what he says, as I said, it’s really insightful! I was just trying to see if I could help with the terminator problem he mentioned :)
I use art puppets under directional lighting a lot to assist with my lighting. I recreate the pose I’m doing and put the light where I want it. It’s very helpful
This is a very helpful video. I like how organized your thinking is. One rule of thumb that I have always used is something Craig Mullins said: cast shadows are hard shadows (unless the light is behind a diffuser or similar) and form shadows are soft shadows.
very useful
i really like the way you said that your painting have many mistakes, since i think every professional artist just make a little mistakes and never talk it, like they keep their own mistakes to theirs, but hearing you said those word make you look more human than i thought before
thanks, it give me hope
where do u get ur tshirts from they're literally so cool--
I just saw it now
I could be wrong
But the right arm of your character needs a bit of adjustment
Specially the shoulder placement
it is stretched by the way he's hanging, but yeah it looks off.
I really like your videos and your artwork, however speaking as an animator, I have no time to mess around with layer effects to get the kind of colours i want I just paint with the colours I want, I feel as though its bad advise to give to other artist's that oh a layer filter will just correct your bland colour choice and incorrect shading when you could have just painted with the colour from the start. But even so good job on the painting it looks sick =)
Can you make a video analysing max grecke artwork
fun fact about sunlight ( I hope I get this right, I'm not a scientist):
The sun is really far away, but it's also really really big. Because it's surface area is so much wider than the earth, and all of that area is emitting light, the edges of shadows cast by sunlight get fuzzy as more light comes from further beside the object to dilute the shadow. It has something to do with the earth's penumbra, if you look that up you might get more information. This is also why the shadows of objects that are further away (for example, a big tower) will get fuzzier. If you walk up to a tower, at the base there will be a sharp edge but far away where the tip of the tower is casting a shadow, that shadow will be fuzzier. That's the best way I can explain it :P
This also happens with really thin objects, so wire fences and tree branches will not have defined edges in their shadows. I just noticed this going on a walk in a park and a friend sent a paper explaining it in more detail
Hey Boro this painting is turning big! Would you tell us what the concept is about?
Ghost In The Shell - Project 2501 th-cam.com/video/l5sbJE4GWzI/w-d-xo.html
Me, who does not have Photoshop and don't know how to paint like this:
"Yes, the terminator is fine. Maybe I should use more Color Dodge Layers as well."
i find it weird that i'm able to recreate my desired light effects on any 3D object but when i paint, everything has too much contrast. Maybe it's cuz in 3D, i have the software lighting my object automatically whereas i have to manually "create" the lighting effect...