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[deusExMatteo]

Sukiyaki Western Django - color study


I attempted to learn some new things about shadows outside in the day time, and I watched this movie yesterday. Didn’t like it as much as first time (when it came out) but the town is really cool!


The main things that I learned from this studdy were:

1. Shadows are really useful for showing shapes. I’ve been doing mostly anatomy lately, so I use shadows and light alot to show the shape of the face, see for instance the last painting I put up of the unloveable-asshole cat. 
The main use of shadows to show shape in this studdy were: showing how far out a roof is protruding, the drop shadow showing where the edge of things are, layering objects so that you can tell what is closest to you (also gives them some contourse - the standing log at the bottom left is a good example).

2. Shadows get the color of the sky bleeding into them. I used different techniquest to try and get this to work. I ended up using the method where I’d add a more saturated and darker shadow and then colorpick the color of the sky (you can see a small part of it at the top left corner) and draw that over the darker color using Transparency, then colorpick that color and use it to paint the rest of the shadows where light from the sky is not occluded. It worked pretty well. 

3. Shadows get less sharp and more tinted by the sky as they get longer and further away from the object casting them. I used the colors around the shadows to blend them out and make them more see-through as they got further away. At the end I went in with the same technique as in 2. and I think that worked OK. 


I did not:
- Focus on perspective. I used some lines to block out the rough shapes but otherwise it was pretty lose. 
- Paint anything but the environement, as characters would have been in the way.
 - Focus that much on getting colors and contrast exactly right. There is a lot of difference in values between my study and the origianl, which is something that I am not super happy about. 


Conclusion
I still think I found out a lot of good stuff from this first attempt, and I am pretty happy with how some things turned out - mainly the gate, the rocks and the buildings on the right hand side. Less happy with the red building and the deeper background (woods and mountains in the far background)
If you have any feedack or critts please let me know, I want to get better. 
Kind regards and thank you for reading
/Matteo