Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

This is Dragon Ball, right? I think, as it is, it gives you more info on how to do lighting in terms of composition (i.e., how to spread dark, medium and light values across the page), but not that much on what values to choose. Since with values, it's all about the relationships between them, I don't think using only three for such complex backgrounds makes for a very productive study. I think you should try to use at least 5 different colors for this. It would make it easier and more productive.

One thing I have to say, is that you use your whites to indicate both light and color of the object. I would choose one or the other. For example, in the first frame white shows both the light on the building and the color of the road. This makes it confusing, since it looks like the road is very shiny, which I'm sure is not the case in the original. I would personally focus on only showing light with white, core shadow with grey and cast shadow with black. If this means that the road is now indistinguishable from the grass, so be it. Because that's not the point, the point is to see how how certain objects are lit in a scene. Same can be said for the last image. White on black probably used to indicate color rather than light, but if we look at it from light perspective, it looks like there are some gloving objects in the sky.

I think i forget to mention this is a 3 value study it will be more clear when i will be posting the next study anyway i am done for value at the moment i will be going into color theory now for a change because i need to mix it up sometime.I didn't felt like i learn anything about value apart from understanding that it a tricky subject to separate value in a scene and make form still read.The notan study are kinda straight forward but once you dive into 3 or 4 value pain start to begin.I think my error was mixing color temperature with value.One on my error was to try to make everything distinguishable.It new to me to think in more than 2 tone i am use to simply drawing with graphite.

+1 for guessing the anime right it was dragon ball.