Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Demo: Color Lighting

I helped Rick colorize his Sci-fi gun design
Rick's original
muted values in preparation for light/shadow application
added shadows and highlights
local color overlay
warm light color dodge

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Demo: Environment Tonal Painting

Yoona's original painting.  Too dark and flat
Lightened with ambient light
repainted graphic tree trunks
floor mist to separate some planes of space
light rays and character

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Demo: Interior Environment Color Key

Demonstrated some simple techniques to start a painting.  Based on traditional methods.  The idea is to "key" the scene into one color range first, then "glaze" the local colors into it later.