10-15-2018, 10:03 AM
@Shinsakuru : You're welcome . I may be mistaken, but on all your portrait I feel like the base tones is good, but you don't switch temperature. Basically, if your shadow are warm, your light is cool, and if your shadow are cools, your light is warm. Its true 95% of the time, except in some rares case where there is apparently no distinguishable temperature shift at all , (quoting Richard Schmidt here) Dark accent are always warm, and you may change specular temperature for more striking effect.
By temp, I mean : Yellow is supposedly a warm color, but its cooler than vermillion orange. Viridan Green is a cool colour, but its warmer than a blue-green. Basically the Warmest color is vermillion and the coolest is blue-green. Temperature is hightly subjective and depends of the colour on the canva. You always look at it depending of the adjacent colors.
Light and color are closely associated. The base color and texture of the object is lit, and the light will change the tones. its a big subject, but its great that you have James Gurney book, because he describe everything very well !
I'm not super familiar with layer mode, but I know that colour dodge warm up the colour and make it lighter. Useful for fire ! :D.
For your background, since your skin tones are a brownish color, you could try using a cool black to make it pop, with a blueish hue, and warm up the skin tones. Also, a general advice I see often is ''don't use pure black or pure white''. of course they re is no such thing as rule in art and you can bend them and do super great. But if you like, soften the contrast everywhere and just add a touch of near black at the focal point, and a hightlight near it, its will make it pop and bring instant focus on this area. With value, you can build a hierarchy of focal point in your composition, so I think you should try to keep your darkest dark and lightest light for your focal point and make everything else more near mid value.
To be honest, i'm not great at compositon myself but I can share artist I like, though . I think Richard Schmidt and Jeremy Lipking could be some good reference for it, hope you like it !
By temp, I mean : Yellow is supposedly a warm color, but its cooler than vermillion orange. Viridan Green is a cool colour, but its warmer than a blue-green. Basically the Warmest color is vermillion and the coolest is blue-green. Temperature is hightly subjective and depends of the colour on the canva. You always look at it depending of the adjacent colors.
Light and color are closely associated. The base color and texture of the object is lit, and the light will change the tones. its a big subject, but its great that you have James Gurney book, because he describe everything very well !
I'm not super familiar with layer mode, but I know that colour dodge warm up the colour and make it lighter. Useful for fire ! :D.
For your background, since your skin tones are a brownish color, you could try using a cool black to make it pop, with a blueish hue, and warm up the skin tones. Also, a general advice I see often is ''don't use pure black or pure white''. of course they re is no such thing as rule in art and you can bend them and do super great. But if you like, soften the contrast everywhere and just add a touch of near black at the focal point, and a hightlight near it, its will make it pop and bring instant focus on this area. With value, you can build a hierarchy of focal point in your composition, so I think you should try to keep your darkest dark and lightest light for your focal point and make everything else more near mid value.
To be honest, i'm not great at compositon myself but I can share artist I like, though . I think Richard Schmidt and Jeremy Lipking could be some good reference for it, hope you like it !