04-26-2023, 11:55 AM
To understand light you need to understand plane shift which is simply to imagine the surface relation to the light source for each plane change you assign a value to that relation. You can imagine the surface of an object as if it was a chest board texture wrapping around the form if it can help you imagine that every plane is seperate but also act as a whole .
The hardest part might be to stay consistent or to get the right value and it become harder when you get more organic shape because now you are not just dealing with flat surface so when you get a plane change the value change isn't as step as would be an hard edge form such as a cube but with softer shape you gotta adjust the control of the value to be much more gradual in general.That why it a great exercise to draw soft vs hard edge rock it might be boring but it a really good subject matter for form study when you think of it the subject matter of rock as a great range between hard edge rock and soft rock and you know what? Rock are free so just pick a few and draw them if you find the idea of drawing rock worth the shot try to pick them up from different place and remember to have variety if you wanna try it out...
The hardest part might be to stay consistent or to get the right value and it become harder when you get more organic shape because now you are not just dealing with flat surface so when you get a plane change the value change isn't as step as would be an hard edge form such as a cube but with softer shape you gotta adjust the control of the value to be much more gradual in general.That why it a great exercise to draw soft vs hard edge rock it might be boring but it a really good subject matter for form study when you think of it the subject matter of rock as a great range between hard edge rock and soft rock and you know what? Rock are free so just pick a few and draw them if you find the idea of drawing rock worth the shot try to pick them up from different place and remember to have variety if you wanna try it out...