Hello everyone and happy tuesday! Tuedays are actually one of my favorite days of the weekdays (as I exclude the weekend). Somehow it is a day where I am mostly hype for some reasons. Probably because I had a few days to take a rest and that it is not monday....
Yesterday I have learned how to make some brushes of my own in the software Clip Art Studio, and it was fun. But today I wanted to practice more the light and shading part. I know about those, but there are so many ways to do it, that I wanted to try a different way. This type of light and shading were actually more technical. I say technical because a lot of it had to do with the type of layers used (my favorite : Multiply) and also using some "tone curves". Curves...ok, you got my attention : not because it sounds sexy but beause I was just too curious to understand how do curves have anything to do with drawing.
They help, using toning curves I can bend a different spots the brightness and darkness of the layer. So basically you try to represent the ight source with a graph. It helps to accentuate what you did, as you must still have to do all the layering (or steps as they do not have to be on different layers), such as :
Like I said, more technicall then some dark here, some light there. It doesn<t make a huge difference, but all the extra details give it an extra taste. For example, since I wanted to concentrate on leraning that technique, I did not make a great sketch, then again I think that the end result is not bad. If you compare at what it started like, I would even say not bad at all :-). So when I will apply parts of this technique to a "good sketch", it might do wonders.
I was really eager to see the timelapse video once I was done, I mean I played a lot with lights, made different type of gradient skies and it ususally seems to give out great little movies. Then I went to save it...I never started it, I completely forgot to go click the option when I started to sketch. I was like "nooooooo"...the worse part is that I have read just recently how someone forgot his draft layer, it must of been a sign :-). So let's go the old fashion way, here are some progress pics :
I hope you guys like it. Thanks for the view
