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A picture to have a break from everything. That's why it's wintery, all blue and another autoportrait 83. Had fun. Hmm, a bit too big ears...
Hope winter will come back in february. Or march, for my birthday :'3.
I will be finnishing all my old, forgoten digitals now to promote the auction, heeereee http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12676109/ : D
Hope winter will come back in february. Or march, for my birthday :'3.
I will be finnishing all my old, forgoten digitals now to promote the auction, heeereee http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12676109/ : D
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
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One of the best things I ever learned about color is that a gray isn't between black and white, it's a mixture of two opposite colors. If the pigments are perfect, they'll both absorb the color the other one isn't absorbing, and it'll reflect no chroma back to the eye.
Brown - Three triadic colors, or a primary and complimentary secondary, each only partially absorbing all the other colors, so it reflects most all colors.
Gray - Two complimentary colors canceling each other out
Gray - Black mixed with white
Black - Absorbs light
White - Reflects light
It's a confusing topic, eh? For some reason brown and white look really good together, because they're both reflecting a lot of light.
Brown - Three triadic colors, or a primary and complimentary secondary, each only partially absorbing all the other colors, so it reflects most all colors.
Gray - Two complimentary colors canceling each other out
Gray - Black mixed with white
Black - Absorbs light
White - Reflects light
It's a confusing topic, eh? For some reason brown and white look really good together, because they're both reflecting a lot of light.
*writes it down* I remember teachers at school telling something about this.
Confusing, nooh. It's very interesting and a simple thing to learn to much improve your palette.
I remember talking with one girl on dA, I wanted to be a good, helpful user so I started writing some constructive criticism. I told her she cannot use black for shading because she make her colours dirty and boring. She replyed that she understands, okay, I will apply that to my future works..... so what am I supposed to use for shading? Gray? X3 *I died...*
Confusing, nooh. It's very interesting and a simple thing to learn to much improve your palette.
I remember talking with one girl on dA, I wanted to be a good, helpful user so I started writing some constructive criticism. I told her she cannot use black for shading because she make her colours dirty and boring. She replyed that she understands, okay, I will apply that to my future works..... so what am I supposed to use for shading? Gray? X3 *I died...*
Brown is most of the colors, white is all the colors. One gray (black+white) is all the colors sort of absorbing into the paper, the other gray (cadmium red+phthalo blue / magenta+spring green or whatever) is all the colors that register on the eye being absorbed and leaving only a small bit of all the colors behind.
Part of why I use traditional art is how hard it is to have chromatic browns and blacks in digital art...
No... you make the color darker. >.< Was she using watercolors, or copics, or what? Because those two mediums, it's pretty hard (masterful) to be able to darken the color without using black.
But if her shadows were just straight black and gray sludged on top of the colors, thank you for helping her with that.
Shadows in real life mean there's less light to reflect off the area in shadow. The color black absorbs light, so less of it reflects. The first is an Absence and the second is a Presence. It's very hard to make the two work... I mostly dodge the issue by mixing colors into my shadow-blacks before I put them on the page.
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/201.....ing-black.html But everything in good taste...
Part of why I use traditional art is how hard it is to have chromatic browns and blacks in digital art...
No... you make the color darker. >.< Was she using watercolors, or copics, or what? Because those two mediums, it's pretty hard (masterful) to be able to darken the color without using black.
But if her shadows were just straight black and gray sludged on top of the colors, thank you for helping her with that.
Shadows in real life mean there's less light to reflect off the area in shadow. The color black absorbs light, so less of it reflects. The first is an Absence and the second is a Presence. It's very hard to make the two work... I mostly dodge the issue by mixing colors into my shadow-blacks before I put them on the page.
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/201.....ing-black.html But everything in good taste...
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