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Speedpaint Tip #2: Colors & LightWhen you approach the topic you intend to paint, whether painting from life or from whatever's stewing in your head, you always, always come to the table with preconceptions. For instance, think of the color of a leaf.
Yes. Green.
Or is it? In a speedpainting, objects aren't out of context of their setting or light source(s), so lets consider where that leaf is before we determine its color. Say it's a leaf at midnight under a full moon. What color will it be then?
Well, technically this is where it gets complicated!
1) When considering what the color of an object should be in a scene, start by figuring out what color it would be under plain white light.
-In the case of our leaf, lets say it would be green. Standard, out-of-the-tube green.
-Remember, light is additive. White light is ALL colors of light. When white light hits our green leaf, we see green, because only the colors of our leaf get reflected back out for our eyes to see. The red light gets absorbed rather than refl

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Atmosphere Tutorialby *Appylon

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

Final Piece:

1: Lay out basic color scheme and lighting. Very gestural very quick. But I go through several variations like this before I find something I'm happy with. At this point I don't necessarily have anything in mind other than making something abstract and pretty. Lay down a horizon line and play around with different brushes.

2: Refining the colors, adding some basic landscape perspective to kind of lessen the abstraction. Still playing around, and still a very fast phase.

3: Bumping up the colors through overlays or vibrancy shifts. I tend to start with muted colors because they make more sense to me. I really shouldn't rely on editing techniques to become a better painter, but you have to be able to balance that with understanding the tools that are available to you. Refine the edges and starting to get a picture in my head of the final piece.

4: Final piece, added in some objects that the eye can kind of pick up. Some sci-fi elements, and refined the edges and colors more.

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~emmawh Feb 27, 2012

Very beautiful landascape! Although I think the so called "fast" phases would be veeeeeeeeeeeeery slow to me, I think I'll give it a try

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