Tyger sketches

[OtherMuzz]

Just to answer why that dark rim is there. Simple.

It's just the bounce light from the cheek. The reason why the edge is darker is that the edge is where the small radius of the corner is turning away from the bounce light. These things are modelled with clay so that means the edges of the planes aren't perfectly sharp.

Btw core shadow is a term that doesn't really mean what people think it means. It isn't the dark area between the bounce light and the lit areas. No it just means when there is an area where none of a particular light source is touching it. I blame every example image ever that seems to label it like that though...


Those planar studies are great btw.

Jaik... what you said is goobeldy gook. Simplify your lighting knowledge down mang. I'd recommend stop talking about lighting in terms of tones and half tones. It just confuses the situation, those are talks of technique, not about how lighting works.
Just to pimp my own shit... I'm slowly writing a no bullshit lighting tutorial. Check it out in the tutorial section.