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As someone who still has a lot of trouble with good shading & lighting, this is so helpful! You really are awesome for posting stuff like this! Beginners can learn these tips early, and even veterans can improve their art and make life easier for themselves!
The FIRST ONE with the colour wheel and being like... hey if your light is this OPPOSITE ON THE WHEEL... every damn tutorial I have watched so far, nobody, NOBODY has made it that easy or pointed that out. That one piece of advise makes this the best video ever and, you're based af. Thank you!
Your videos have helped me improve my art so much, I have been in a huge art-block for what feels like years cause I always felt my art wasn't any good. Thanks to your videos, the easy steps, reassuring words making me feel like I could actually do it, and overall amazing art on your part, I have been feeling SO happy with mine. Every video is absolutely amazing, thank you so much!
thanks for the tutorial!! I've always had difficulty when rendering faces because there's so much stuff concentrated in one area... so many folds, corners, shapes, sometimes I just felt like I ran out of space specially when rendering
Yes we talk about cel shading vs soft shading and different types of blending in this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gH0Yh7_pDtk.html
Love the video, and it did have some super useful information, but there was one thing I think was missed with metal in particular. Metal reflections are always tinted the color of the material. When you render metal, reflections (including that of the sky) will be in the color metal you are working with (such as yellows for gold and browns for copper). Huge shout-out to a wonderful artist on RU-vid, BoroCG, for that tid bit of information.
I've been drawing for 4 years and I have never heard the tip of using complimentary colors for light/shadows until now... you have absolutely blown my mind
There is way more to shading coloration, the colors of the nearby things on the surrounding environment appear reflected in the shadows of all things, there are many helpful tutorials on shading at the channel of Marco Bucci.
Let's say for things like brown hair, what would the complementary color or shadow color be? In one of my latest pieces, I had a blue highlight color and it looks pretty nice. 😊
if you don't want to use overlay layers, you could try grey-ish brown (looks bluish, but more neutral) or add reflective colors in the shadow (so color of clothes/ whatever is colored & close to that part of the hair)
Wow, this is amazingly to the point and helpful! Many '4 tips for beginners' lists are either super basic or very specific. Your video actually provides short clear tips that are immediately and broadly applicable for most beginners. I, for one, will use these tips from now on for sure. Thank you very much. I honestly hope your channel blows up soon because your content is fantastic quality, and lots of people would benefit from it so much.
So for the color portion at the start. What would do if I say had two different color light souses? How would I do the shading and lighting then? So for example, say someone was walking down a walkway around in a nightclub or down a path at night that's lit up by neon sines. how would I go about piking the colors for the shading at that point if there are two or more colored lights? P.S. sorry for any bad grammar or spelling ^^;
Hue of shadow isn't complement colour, it depends on surrounding area (in day light with clear sky it'll be bluish, in dark room lighted only by candles - warm)
I'd say if you use rendering layers (multiply, soft/hard light...) it doesn't, though some will be prettier? Not sure how that would work traditionally though.
OH FOR FRAK SAKE!!! IS ANY FREAKING TUTORIAL THAT EXPLAINS THE SOFTWARE INSTEAD OF YET ANOTHER "oh yeah what you need to do is understand the fundamentals and color theory" I ALREADY KNOW THAT I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW YA'LL DO IT DIGITALLY!! NOT STUDY THE SAME THING I ALREADY STUDIED MULTIPLE TIMES!!! AND I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO RELIABLY ON PAPER!!!
A lot of the principles from analog art carry over into digital art so most videos you see about “How to do ____” are going to be similar across the board. Most creators making digital art tutorials are trying to teach you techniques not how to use your art program so my recommendation to you would be search for videos focused on teaching you to use your art program and if you still need help doing a specific task like shading or blending you can use phrases like “in (insert program name)” during your search for example: “How to blend skin tones in Clip Studio” If you can’t find a good video for your program of choice then watch a video for a different program and google search what the equivalent tool is in your program
Oh thank you! I actually learned a little bit. Colour shading is one of my weakest skills. I pretty much only did sketches growing up, so I only learned to shade in monochrome. And even then, I need to learn about light dynamics and shapes, I think
Honestly I really wish there is somewhere I could go like specifically to ask art questions that isn’t TikTok, twitter or Reddit because everytime I try I get no views and no help Anyway question for anyone still reading this, is there like a blending/smudging/blurring (idk how to phrase it) tutorial somewhere? Like honestly everytime I use the smudge tool it’s just all over the place (yes I lower opacity) and in the end I just end up using Gaussian blur 😔 but this person doesn’t even use the smudge tool, they use a textured brush HOW I did try tho and still I can’t blend like how other ppl do it, help 😭
Blimey, you talk at the speed of light. I feel that I might end up with whiplash every time I pause the video :p All joking aside, enjoyed the content, it's very on-point and you cover pieces of information that is often brushed over by other "tutors" (pun totally intended). Have subbed the channel because it definitely speaks to me as a learner whom never had the opportunity to get an education in art and because the content is conveyed to me in a way that I can absorb which is very on-par with only one other RU-vid presence that really works which is Ctrl-Paint. Look forward to absorbing all the content :)
If someone's communication speed doesn't match my own preferences, I often change the playback speed in the settings (in my case it's often faster). It can really make a big difference to my enjoyment and attention.
