Lighting

09-10-2015
Hello! Normally, when I work out a drawing, or even if I'm just making a loose sketch, I work from the upper left to the right lower corner. This makes sense, because you can constantly see what you have done before and take that into consideration while further developing or rendering the piece. Also, most of the time, I have my light coming in from the left hand upper corner, because I use the white of the paper for my lightest parts, in case of, for instance a pen and ink drawing, and I can put in the darker spots and solid blacks going down, again being able to check what has already been done.

Now, working in Photoshop, that necessity has largely been taking away: there is no hand covering up half of your design. there is only your brush, and you can constantly see the whole picture on your screen. But by now, it has become such of a habit, that I stil go basically from left to right, from up to down.
This time, however, there is a picture in New, in which have turned things around, letting the light come from the lower right hand corner, just to challenge myself a bit.
Go check it out, I'm curious wether you like it or not!

Coco

There's also a new page in the IDTSMD comic. And if you haven't already, check out the short story: The Futile Escape. Until next time,

CBAP