11-26-2019, 09:18 AM
Hey Leo Ki
I took some time to go through you sketchbook and man... I'm struck by how many interesting ideas and directions you have going on. I really admire that. The skill will come with time if you put in some delibrate practice, you needn't have any doubt of that.
That said, i'm a bit stuck on what specific guidance I can give you at the moment because I'm not sure which direction you're trying to head in right now. So for lack of something better I took a stab at your floating cube.
The first thing I did was sure up the perspective a bit. For the sake of clarity I made it just 2 point perspective instead of 3 point.
Then I got rid of some of the edge highlights you had going on. They wouldn't really be seen from the viewers angle so they don't make sense and hurt the depth in the image.
After that I had to think about the lightsources. There's the warm main light and there's the fill light. In this case the fill light from the sky is pretty much an omni directional light since the sky is all around the cube but I went along with what you had established in your inital study and left the underside of the cube untouched by the fill. This helps bring out the form.
There's an interesting corner (circled in orange) where you can't see the change from one side to the other. That's because of the omni-directional nature of the fill light coming from both sides at once. This wouldn't happen in most lighting situations.
Now I added the reflected light. It's a pretty safe bet to pick a darker, more saturated version of the main light to creat the reflected light.
At the end I added some ambient occlusion to the inner corners.
This excercise was pretty tough to think through. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it perfectly either but maybe you could get something out of what I made and my haphazard explanation. I'm looking forward to what you do next!
I took some time to go through you sketchbook and man... I'm struck by how many interesting ideas and directions you have going on. I really admire that. The skill will come with time if you put in some delibrate practice, you needn't have any doubt of that.
That said, i'm a bit stuck on what specific guidance I can give you at the moment because I'm not sure which direction you're trying to head in right now. So for lack of something better I took a stab at your floating cube.
The first thing I did was sure up the perspective a bit. For the sake of clarity I made it just 2 point perspective instead of 3 point.
Then I got rid of some of the edge highlights you had going on. They wouldn't really be seen from the viewers angle so they don't make sense and hurt the depth in the image.
After that I had to think about the lightsources. There's the warm main light and there's the fill light. In this case the fill light from the sky is pretty much an omni directional light since the sky is all around the cube but I went along with what you had established in your inital study and left the underside of the cube untouched by the fill. This helps bring out the form.
There's an interesting corner (circled in orange) where you can't see the change from one side to the other. That's because of the omni-directional nature of the fill light coming from both sides at once. This wouldn't happen in most lighting situations.
Now I added the reflected light. It's a pretty safe bet to pick a darker, more saturated version of the main light to creat the reflected light.
At the end I added some ambient occlusion to the inner corners.
This excercise was pretty tough to think through. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it perfectly either but maybe you could get something out of what I made and my haphazard explanation. I'm looking forward to what you do next!