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Only the greatest contrasts are at first perceivable. The value range will be light, halftone, shadow. The subtler values will be lost. This is the effect to aim at when expressing strong light. To see simply is to see pictorially. In strong light there will be no color in the shadow. By using absolute shadow or black, to draw in the shadow forms, all the values can be painted in local color.
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I am a long-time art student, and avidly continue my art studies in this blog. However, I have a husband and three small children, so I don't have the free time to make art that I wish I did. This blog contains the stolen scribblings I've made in spare moments. Someday I'll improve!Tags
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Tag Archives: shading
Fox in snow, nearly done
Worked on this for a while tonight and got it mostly done, I think. Here’s the black and white layer. Here’s the color layer on the fox. It’s subtle. Now her eyes look alive! And then the liberal amount of … Continue reading
Spooky face
What is it about a face lit from below that’s supposed to be so spooky? And yet, it kind of is. Also, it does really interesting things to the planes of the human face. Afraid I don’t have any interesting … Continue reading
Formative books?
Trying to get my art mojo back on, so here’s a few pumpkins, sketched in digital pencil from life, as I have a couple of small ones sitting on my desk. Today on Sarah Sawyer’s writing blog, she had a … Continue reading
A boy and his dino, with color
Way back in this post, I drew this sketch, based off a lovely photo submitted to one of Pioneer Woman’s photo contests. I’ve been attempting to color it lately. I roughed in the colors, keeping this quote in mind from … Continue reading
Faces
Got some work done on their faces today. I’m understating her face because she’ll be pretty small in comparison to the rest of the painting, and you have to go for simplicity when it’s that small. I haven’t got the … Continue reading
Dusk beach, problems
Got a bit more done today, still roughing out the main color masses. The lighting on the dragon is really harsh because I’m still figuring out the shapes of the light and shadow. Not sure I like the color of … Continue reading
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Dusk beach, version 2
I was toying with this pic again, and I just didn’t like it. It might as well be pure silhouette. So I rotated the camera placement 90 degrees. Much more interesting lighting now, and a better view of the characters. … Continue reading
