Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson we
went through selecting colors for rendering shadows.
In this lesson, we'll be going
through the same for highlights.
When we have a portion of a subject illuminated
by light, everything will be highlighted, including the
lines and even the shadows within the highlights.
So when we are painting, it's good to keep in
mind that the shadows in the highlighted part will be
lighter than the shadows in the shadow part.
Let's start off the demo with the lines.
I'll choose a darker color than the base, but contrary to
how we choose colors of light, I will turn up the saturation.
And I'll do the same for her skin.
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Now let's start shading in the shadows.
The color selection will follow the same process,
darker, more saturated, and the hue shifted to the right.
And we can start shading in
the shadows of the highlighted part.
Again, we pay attention to where the light
is coming from and where shadows might form.
Like this part because her hair slightly poofing up so
there will be a wall that blocks the light.
And here in her hair parting, where there may be
more crevices, and light cannot pass through as easily.
Next, like how we introduced a
secondary color into the shadow body.
I'm going to do the same for this one with a complementary color.
And same technique as always, paint it on
lightly, color pick and paint the rest in.
Now let's look at the big picture again.
Between the large shadow and the large highlighted part, there
will be a half tone. And for that we are
gonna color pick the midtone, turn up the saturation,
and paint it into the half tone.
When we demonstrated painting the half tone on the sphere,
we had pretty soft light and a blurry shadow.
But in this case, because we have pretty
harsh lighting, our layers can be pretty distinct.
So we can paint our half tone
in like this without much blending.
I'm almost just using my half tone
color to sort of outline the Terminator.
Lastly, when we have very thin materials
have light pass through them, they will
appear extra saturated, especially with flesh.
Because the light shines through our skin and tissue.
Our blood capillaries will be illuminated
to a bright red or orange.
I picked a more saturated red for the half
tone and I'm now airbrushing on a light color.
Things like plants and leaves will
be illuminated in the same way.
Sometimes what I like to do to make my highlights
stand out even more is I'll go to the hue
saturation and brightness tab, use the pencil function, and increase
the saturation of the half tone area.
And I did the same for the hair.
I used the pencil function to just select the
half tone area and turn up the saturation.
And like this, the color of the
half tone can be exaggerated even more.
And like our shadows, our
highlights can have highlights too.
I'll demonstrate how I paint that in with
a light spot on her nose.
Similarly I'll get a more saturated color and we
can use this to paint in a half tone.
Then I'll pick a color of a highlight
and paint it within the border of the
half tone, and we're done!
For the mission, finish up our simple portraits.
We started last lesson and color in the lighting.
In this lesson, we concluded our chapter
about colors, with selecting colors for lighting.
In the next chapter, we'll move on to rendering.
We will start off the chapter with
trying out two different rendering techniques.
Then later on, take our painting plan
and turn it into fully rendered pieces. See you there!