Oh my god I love this video! More simple straight up basics like this! This gave me a great idea, I’m just going to paint boats in black and white until I get them, it’s too hard to jump in with all the colors when the shading gives the basic form. Please do one on values in landscape, large value masses🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Ohhhh that’s a wonderful idea actually! Boats in black and white like the one I demonstrated here are a great way to better understand this, as well as the technique! As for landscapes - definitely, will do soon 😊🙏🏼
Thank you so much for showing the process in watercolor! I do know a bit about the shadows but could never figure out a way to do it in watercolors. This video was very enlightening! hehe (joke partially intended)
I think you're very right to point out that the theory about shading is important. Even when drawing or painting from reference you'll at least know what to look for. Things are less overwhelming that way. I like the terms Joseph Sheppard used in his book "How to paint like the Old Masters". With a single light source there is the light part of the form divided in the highlight and the middle tone, and there is the part turned away from the light divided in the reflected light and the shadow accent. And finally there is the cast shadow. Of course there is variation within these areas but it's important to make sure that some shade in a lighter area is never darker than a shade in a darker area. Going from lightest to darkest : highlight, middle tone, reflected light, cast shadow/ shadow accent. The last two are a bit of a toss up. For added drama make the shadow accents really dark with sharp edges on the light side (the shadow accent is between the middle tone and the reflected light, it doesn't get the direct light and hardly any reflected light). Old 30s horror movies (like those Universal monster movies like Frankenstein) are good practice material. The shape, size, color and contrast of highlights deserve special attention. It informs how shiny and smooth the object is and what material it's made of. Whether something is real gold or just gold colored plastic can be seen by the color of the highlight. If the highlight is white (under white light) then it's plastic. If it's yellow then it's gold. Basically : if the material is electrically conductive then the highlight is the color of the material, if it's not then it's the color of the light (it's some physics thing).
Most excellent! Great advice and demonstration. This is why I won't buy a paint set that doesn't have a black (and no I'm not mixing for one) because you need it for practicing tones ... plus there's a distinct realism to B&W (greyscale) painting, imho.
Oh my god I love this video! More simple straight up basics like this! This gave me a great idea, I’m just going to paint boats in black and white until I get them, it’s too hard to jump in with all the colors when the shading gives the basic form. Please do one on values in landscape, large value masses🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Ohhhh that’s a wonderful idea actually! Boats in black and white like the one I demonstrated here are a great way to better understand this, as well as the technique!
As for landscapes - definitely, will do soon 😊🙏🏼
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Thank you Pam! 🙏😊Happy this was useful 😁
Great explanation.
That was helpful that you
Thank you so much 🙏😊
I never knew what core shadow meant before!
Now you know 😊 It’s quite simple actually! It’s the real shadow, unaffected by reflected lights (:
Thank you so much for showing the process in watercolor! I do know a bit about the shadows but could never figure out a way to do it in watercolors. This video was very enlightening! hehe (joke partially intended)
I think you're very right to point out that the theory about shading is important. Even when drawing or painting from reference you'll at least know what to look for. Things are less overwhelming that way.
I like the terms Joseph Sheppard used in his book "How to paint like the Old Masters". With a single light source there is the light part of the form divided in the highlight and the middle tone, and there is the part turned away from the light divided in the reflected light and the shadow accent. And finally there is the cast shadow. Of course there is variation within these areas but it's important to make sure that some shade in a lighter area is never darker than a shade in a darker area.
Going from lightest to darkest : highlight, middle tone, reflected light, cast shadow/ shadow accent. The last two are a bit of a toss up. For added drama make the shadow accents really dark with sharp edges on the light side (the shadow accent is between the middle tone and the reflected light, it doesn't get the direct light and hardly any reflected light). Old 30s horror movies (like those Universal monster movies like Frankenstein) are good practice material.
The shape, size, color and contrast of highlights deserve special attention. It informs how shiny and smooth the object is and what material it's made of. Whether something is real gold or just gold colored plastic can be seen by the color of the highlight. If the highlight is white (under white light) then it's plastic. If it's yellow then it's gold. Basically : if the material is electrically conductive then the highlight is the color of the material, if it's not then it's the color of the light (it's some physics thing).
Wow I didnt expect youd make this video:))) I asked you on insta about shadows haha a while back
Haha I follow through! 😊🙏🏼 Thought it often takes me a loooong time haha 😅
Most excellent! Great advice and demonstration.
This is why I won't buy a paint set that doesn't have a black (and no I'm not mixing for one) because you need it for practicing tones ... plus there's a distinct realism to B&W (greyscale) painting, imho.
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