02-23-2014, 10:18 AM
I was confused in my color theory class just yesterday about a situation similar to your spoon. When I asked about how shadows act in colored light, the response I got was that because there's no direct light in the shadows, it lacks the wavelength of whatever the light color is. So since the magenta isn't shining all that's there to see is the opposite of magenta, green.
It's like what happens if your turn off the R channel in photoshop, suddenly everything goes cyan since the opposite of cyan no longer exists.
Does that make sense? Still don't understand it myself tbh! From what I understand it has to do in part with how your eyes are perceiving the light rather than what's actually happening, which is beyond my understanding right now.
I'm not saying that's what's going on, or that the guys who posted before me were wrong. Just relaying information. I'm gonna go buy some colored lights myself and test this out before daring to claim it as fact. Maybe you should take some pictures of your still life setup and use the color picker to see if there's actually green in the shadow.
Awesome quantity in your other work! Congrats on getting the bloodsport in on time! The old guy doesn't look too stylized to me, that would be an issue if he were rendered in a different way than anything else but in terms of shape design I think he totally fits. The photos of the figure drawings are a tad too large to judge clearly. Are you working on paper with a lot of tooth? your marks looks really noisy, maybe try a softer touch with your pencil and doing those hatch strokes in only one direction.
EDIT
hah dang you posted while I was writing my comment XD new stuff looks cool, remember in the value stuff that the reflected light can't get any brighter than the halftones.
Do you have any tools to use with your charcoal? a chamois cloth to smudge it around or a blending stump? Might want to look into those. Maybe try drawing a preliminary sketch in vine charcoal and smudging around some tone before going in with the charcoal
It's like what happens if your turn off the R channel in photoshop, suddenly everything goes cyan since the opposite of cyan no longer exists.
Does that make sense? Still don't understand it myself tbh! From what I understand it has to do in part with how your eyes are perceiving the light rather than what's actually happening, which is beyond my understanding right now.
I'm not saying that's what's going on, or that the guys who posted before me were wrong. Just relaying information. I'm gonna go buy some colored lights myself and test this out before daring to claim it as fact. Maybe you should take some pictures of your still life setup and use the color picker to see if there's actually green in the shadow.
Awesome quantity in your other work! Congrats on getting the bloodsport in on time! The old guy doesn't look too stylized to me, that would be an issue if he were rendered in a different way than anything else but in terms of shape design I think he totally fits. The photos of the figure drawings are a tad too large to judge clearly. Are you working on paper with a lot of tooth? your marks looks really noisy, maybe try a softer touch with your pencil and doing those hatch strokes in only one direction.
EDIT
hah dang you posted while I was writing my comment XD new stuff looks cool, remember in the value stuff that the reflected light can't get any brighter than the halftones.
Do you have any tools to use with your charcoal? a chamois cloth to smudge it around or a blending stump? Might want to look into those. Maybe try drawing a preliminary sketch in vine charcoal and smudging around some tone before going in with the charcoal