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ratcreature) wrote2006-02-01 11:50 pm
ratcreature) wrote2006-02-01 11:50 pm
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grumping...
I'm in the process to color that Snape picture, and drawing bright sunshine just sucks. Why? Because for bright sunshine to look like bright sunshine you have to draw clearly defined shadows. You'd think it was simpler to draw shadows in such a relatively simple light, where you have just the one main light source to consider. But in reality, if you don't set out for very realistic styles, where indeed several light sources and/or diffuse lightening makes things increasingly complicated, you can get away with just faking shadows in vaguely appropriate places much more easily if the lightening itself comes from several light sources and ambient light. I mean obviously if someone looks closely they'll still notice the errors, but well, you don't notice them like you do if there's just one bright light casting one clearly defined shadow per object. Or at least I don't.
In theory of course drawing any shadows is not difficult, like say if you have a plane and a cube and a light you just draw a couple of easily determined lines like in this tutorial and you have your shadow, like everybody learned in eight grade or whenever you had do basic perspective constructions for a while in high school art lessons. Unfortunately in practice it is much more hassle when you have irregular shaped stuff (inconveniently things like people rarely come in neat cubes, well maybe Spongebob comes close *g*), shadows falling against objects, and surfaces that are not neat rectangular floors and walls, because even though the principles remain the same applying them is just not fun anymore.
Also I suck at it (which possibly explains why I don't think it's fun). *sigh*
In theory of course drawing any shadows is not difficult, like say if you have a plane and a cube and a light you just draw a couple of easily determined lines like in this tutorial and you have your shadow, like everybody learned in eight grade or whenever you had do basic perspective constructions for a while in high school art lessons. Unfortunately in practice it is much more hassle when you have irregular shaped stuff (inconveniently things like people rarely come in neat cubes, well maybe Spongebob comes close *g*), shadows falling against objects, and surfaces that are not neat rectangular floors and walls, because even though the principles remain the same applying them is just not fun anymore.
Also I suck at it (which possibly explains why I don't think it's fun). *sigh*
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