Hi Everyone,
Here's Week 4's value demo. In this lesson, we explored the basic steps of composition, values, lighting, and dabbled a bit in color. The key from the start of any digital painting, is to work with limited values and colors, and build its complexity as it progresses.
Already just by looking at this piece, I noticed a lot of areas that require more research. Starting with value, the rock formation on the left and its shadow, seem a bit off. The values in the foreground appear too dark, and lack bounce light. The sky, well, there is no sky color, which in my opinion is a problem. The color of the sky dictates the hue of ambient light or bounce light, without it, shaded areas wouldn't have any color - thus make the scene look monochromatic and boring. So my next step would be to figure out what sky color I'd like to have, and apply some of it in the shaded areas. As for solving the shadow of the giant rock formation, left side, I would have to dig up some photo reference that have similar lighting conditions.
Aside from the values, the next steps would be to look for reference material that would cover the rest of the unanswered questions. What do rock the textures look like, what types of vegetation will populate the scene, what does the character and ship look like?
Next Steps for this piece:
- refine values and color
- look for the above reference material
- texture
Lemme know if there are any questions.
jwu
