Dynamic Light Painting, or chiaroscuro, involves painting usually from dark to light and with a light source that is well defined and obvious.
I've learned a lot from Anthony Jones using this method, and tried to see what I could do with Photoshop. The very first painting involved a human torso. From there, I continued on to paint a pair of arms and a helmet. I ended up changing my mind and painted a pair of of icy arms and a icy headpiece, as if both the arms and the headpiece naturally grew on him with a mask to cover his face. Due to the fact that the painting was in black and white (also known as value painting), I used a color brush to give him life:
I continued on with this knowledge on a character named Zi. Here I painted more flesh and started liking this mottled brush I had. Although the brush looked like a mess, it was a perfect sampler for my brain to work with and stimulate my sense of values in real-time speeds. My mind took too much time into the flesh that it didn't think about the ambient values. If you focus on one area, your mind will start to trick itself. Lesson learned:
And that's pretty much it. Studying values eventually became a big hobby of mine. However, while I'm improving my sense of values, I will eventually need to improve my sense of color!
