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This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about how to select colors for a piece. Beginners especially just pick random colors based on the true local color of objects, but color really needs to be designed just like shape and light. In this lesson we just…

This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about the basics of color theory including basic terms and the color wheel. Most of this is easy except for the difference of shade (adding black), tint (adding white) and tone (adding grey). It was also a challenge for…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about the different in lighting styles. Just because it’s possible to light things in a more realistic way, it doesn’t mean that you need to. Light can be flat and graphic, or realistic, or somewhere in between. This lesson…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about basic lighting of objects. One of the big points is that the local tone is part of lighting. You won’t see the local tone unless there is existing light. So, the rest of lighting is actually very minimal.…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about adding shadow to an exterior scene. The most important thing about this lesson is to simplify and not get stuck trying to get every little detail correct. It needs to be believable, not perfectly accurate. The lasso tool…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about adding shadow to an interior scene. We are not adding lighting yet, just the shadow. Since the scene is more complicated than a single object, we need to keep things simple. This is much easier digitally since you…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about adding basic shadows to simple objects. This still takes me a long time to do. The tools in Photoshop and Huion are still difficult for me, but I’m learning. They are becoming more natural, but I still struggle…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about looking at a scene of basic objects and figuring out the local tone of those objects against a background. My last time doing this, I just did the class example, today I used examples of simple shapes from…