Originally posted by Gussy
Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
shadow grey is a blue so use a red to shade.
the miniature mentor vid with the wolfen actualy use shadow grey as the midtone for the skin, it could be realy helpfull for you to pick it up.
Shouldn\'t the shadow be a lighter shade of the same color?
Shadow isn\'t lighter, it\'s a darker version of the same colour caused by the \"prevention\" of light reflecting off the surface.
Highlights are the \"lighter\" version and even that is a slight stretching of reality for artistic effect.
In reality if you look at an obect such as your arm in plain light and look at the creases and folds in the material, you will see that what we paint isn\'t a \"true\" representation of what occurs with light.
Looking at my arm now I can see that there are (at least) four distinct stages of light effect on each crease of my shirt.
1: Highlight , The brightest point (in this case White)
2: False Shadow line, immediatly after the top of the crease but before the vertical drop.
3: Reflection of the white from the next crease.
4: Gradiated Umbra, the fade from Darkest Shadow through normal basic colour.
