SweatBook - Wet & Messy

[John]

even tho my light is super orange and makes everything warm so I don't see any cool shadows since there's pretty much no other light on the stuff

Anton said what's needed to be said. But make no mistake about it. That warm light,cool shadows rule is a doozy. It's not an easy subject to grasp as one may believe. It's hard to notice the warm cool relationship of things specifically when your light source is warm, and the objects that surround your subject reflect warm light towards your subject as well.

Keep in mind that colors are relative. Just because that thing you're seeing is red, orange, or yellow, does not mean it's necessarily warm (in it's relationship to what you have as a light source). You can have a cool/cold versions of those colors. Two tips to make a "warm" color look cold:

1. Desaturation makes it cold.
2. Shift the color a little bit to a colder hue. For example: If you have a red ball under a warm light, I'd drag the the hue towards blue. So I'd probably end up using a purple color for the shadows.

*edit: Do the opposite to make a color warmer.

Overall dude, you're doing alright. Don't beat yourself up over it and just realize that the more pieces you got under your belt, the more things will make sense. Given you always separate yourself from the work and evaluate.

Good luck! Hope my babbling made sense.