Brief lighting analysis
The first piece I decided to study on was a digitally painting
environmental concept created by the Deviant Art member K-atrina. You can tell
that the main light source is the sun which could be shining through higher
branches of trees of partings in the clouds as you can clearly see sun beams
shining down in front of the main focal point which is the tree. I believe that
the background that is just to the left of the tree would be slightly darker
due to the lack of lighting catching it. I also think that the area in the foreground
with the red gateway would be slightly lighter as I feel it is too shaded and doesn’t
mix well with the rest of the piece. On a more positive note the colours used
makes the piece look soft and this is also helped by the subtle lighting dotted
around the environment. Even though it is not a ‘clean’ piece, the lighting
should still try and be as accurate as possible which they have achieved quite
well.
This is a classical painting by Charles Joshua Chaplin. Overall
I think the lighting and shadows are very accurate and I imagine the artist had
a life model in front of him whilst creating this piece so he had a reference
to perfect these elements. The main
light source is clearly shining directly onto the young girls face and upper
body so it must be directly in front of her at quite a close distance but not
enough to create very heavy shadowing. If this is the case then there should be
a darker area were her shadow is hitting the background but it just seems to
change gradient from the middle to the edge with no sign of stronger shadowing.
Then again we don’t know how close the background actually is to her, she could
be right up next to it or a few feet away so this would alter the amount of
shadow created.
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