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leocesar · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 8:19 pm

Hi everyone, I’m doing this image, but the coloring is a bit flat, does anyone have some advices for me.
Thanks,
Leonardo

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[ January 30, 2002: Message edited by: leocesar ]

chrono1 · junior member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 25

Yes. Avoid using spaces in web links.

jome · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 10:29 am

(Great(!) advice, chrono1. :[ )

I think that if you can diagnose the drawing as having flat colouring, you've walked the best part of the road. All you need to know now are some tricks and skills.

Try to look at your object as a 3D object. Obviously, some light is cast upon it, otherwise you wouldn't see anything. Check this out on a gazillion objects, it's always the same. And the surfaces that are turned towards the lightsource, obviously catch more light per surface, so the intensity of the light on these surfaces is higher. And the other way around for the parts that are turned away from the lightsource.

You also have to vary the thickness of your linework. An outline in a spot where there would be a shadow in the colouring, is often thicker than a line where the light falls directly on the subject. That way, the drawing pops off the paper more easily.
And another trick is that when a part of an object is in front of another, you can thicken the line of the first object. In your drawing, the gloved hand is lost in the knee, but you can move it out when you make the line around the glove a bit heavier than the lines in the back.

Xerox your drawing, and experiment!

This is for starters, if you look at real life objects, you'll learn the subtleties of the matter too.

Nice drawing, by the way.

Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

I have the same trouble, I try to catch the lighting, but it seems light doesn't hit where I think it does. I'm going to break down and jsut start working form photos if this keeps up =]

leocesar · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 12:00 am

Excellent tips Jome!
I’m a little bit lazy when marking my drawings with different thickness, but it has a price, problems like the gloved hand seems to be very common and in most cases it takes out the depth of the artwork. I’ll make a Xerox of my drawing to study light and shadows like you recommended me.
See you soon with the finished piece!
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