Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we went through how to
select colors for blocking in shadows and highlights.
In this lesson, we will be focusing on
shadows more in in detail, and how to
choose colors to render our paintings.
In chapter one, we learnt about shadows and light, and
we blocked in the large shadows in this portrait.
But within the big shadows, we have
more individual shadows and crevice shadows inside.
For the most part, it is quite
similar to how we choosed colors in the last lesson.
We will choose more
saturated and darker colors for the shadows.
However, within them, I like to introduce a secondary
color to liven it up, and I'll show you
how I choose those secondary colors in this demo.
But before we start detailing our
shadows, let's start with the lines.
Our lines will be a dark and pretty saturated
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color similar to the base. I'll Alpha lock the
lines and just paint it in real quick.
Next, let's move on to the crevice shadows
which we already painted in from chapter one.
They are going to be really dark, so I'm just gonna
choose the same color as I use for the lines.
And now for the individual shadows, I'll
block them in with a shadow color.
So, like we learned the last lesson, we will get
the base color, turn up the saturation, and turn down
the brightness, and move our hue slightly to the right.
We can pay attention to how our objects overlap and
just keep in mind where our light is coming from
to guide where we place our shadows.
For the hair, lot of the time, I will follow the
flow and general direction of the hair, but I'll
cover this in more detail in the next chapter.
For now, let's just focus on the colors to choose.
There's a big part overlapping in her ponytail, so
the shadow there is going to be pretty big
and we can just shade it in largely with
the shadow color that we picked.
Now that we're done blocking in all the large
shadow bodies within the shadow, we can go ahead
and start introducing a secondary color in.
For this, I'm gonna choose a complementary color.
So I'll open the color wheel, pick a
color opposite, and I'm going to choose a
pretty low saturation of that color.
There's no exact number, but I like to
keep the saturation below 40%. And we'll use
that to just paint in our shadow body.
What I do is I introduced that color
onto the shadow body using a light stroke.
Then I color pick that new color and use
it to paint over all the shadow body.
Using this method of introducing the new color very lightly
can slightly lighten and change the tone of the shadows
without it being too much, and I'll just paint it
into the rest of the shadows here.
This works particularly well for really big shadows like
the ones we painted into a ponytail. Because it
can really soften those really dark shadows.
Now I'll just do the same for her skin.
I'll paint in the base shadows.
And this time, instead of using a complementary color, I'll use a dull blue.
And I'll just paint it into the shadow bodies, but
not exceeding the border of the shadow body,
so we can still see the red.
And that's how we paint the
individual shadows within the big shadow.
But within these big shadows, there's highlights as
well because there may be sources of light
Other than the main one coming from above.
So we're going to learn how to pick
the colors for the highlights within this big shadow.
Instead of painting the highlight itself in
first, we are going to paint in the half tone.
And if you remember, our half tone is
a more saturated color of the transitional tone.
So I'll turn up the saturation, turn up the brightness,
and shift our hue slightly to the left to introduce
a secondary color using analogous and again with the same
technique, I paint it in lightly color, pick the new
color and use it to render the rest in.
I'll paint in the large areas where there's no shadows.
And now that we painted in the half
tone of the highlight, we can now paint
in the most bright part of our highlight.
And to get that color like last lesson, we
turn down the saturation and turn up the brightness.
And I'll paint it into the half tones.
Like the secondary color of the shadows.
I try to paint within the half tone. So we
can still see that half tone color around the border.
And like this, we've detailed in our shadow.
To recap, we painted in shadows within shadows and for
that, we use a darker, more saturated color.
We also painted in the highlights with a
brighter, less saturated color over a half tone.
And we also chose some secondary colors to
introduce for our shadow body and half tone.
For those secondary colors, we use
three methods to choose them.
The first using a complementary color to the base, the second
using an analogous color to the base, and finally using a blue.
To introduce those colors, we use the technique of lightly
shading it on color picking the new color we created then
using that to paint the rest in.
For the mission, color the shadows of a portrait.
I've provided this line art with base shading if you want
to do it alongside me, but you can challenge yourself
and use a different colored base from me and try
to decide what colors to use on your own.
I've included a few different colors in the class
notes, too, if you just want to download them.
In this lesson, we learnt about
how to pick colors for shadows.
In the next lesson, we will move on to light.