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In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
One trick I like to do to make my pictures look more realistic is by drawing multiple sections of different illumination. Three is the most common. These are usually shadow, mid-tone, and highlight. I have briefly talked about this before in my shadows post, however I'll expand on it now. I'm going to mostly focus on faces as that is where this trick is hardest to implement. Placement of Shadows on Faces I showed these pictures before in the shadows post, but I'll show them here again as I think they really help visualize what's going on with light on the face. Looking at models such as these is extremely helpful when learning to draw certain things. Everyone's face is different so if you don't have a photo of a subject or a physical subject in front of you, it can be useful to look at lighting on different people's faces to try to determine how shadows would fall on your character's face. Highlights Tutorial When you are drawing these shadows you first have to identify what the light source is. In this example it is the campfire.
Shadows For shadows it's a similar concept. The difference is instead of where the light is hitting it's where the light isn't hitting. When you have a single light source it's easier to track shadows as they are mostly where the highlights are not with perhaps a small mid-tone section. However when you get more lights, such as a normal lit room or outside during the day, it's harder to place them. This becomes instinct with time, but one trick is to think of them as in the opposite place as you put your highlights. They also show up under obstructions like hair or a sleeve or the brim of a hat. Check out this example, also from my comic strip.
I hope this has been helpful! See you for the next post in a few weeks!
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Hello, I have just uploaded two old scenes from the story The Search for Mirage in my comics. See below.
I have also added new art for the story A Matter of Time which you can see on the main superhero comics page here .
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My name is Loren SinclairI am an artist and amateur cartoonist. I have been drawing my own comic strips (the biggest one about superheroes) and improving my art along the way. Archives
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