I can't seem to wrap my head around the lesson. I wanna post my work here to see if I'm even doing this lesson correctly.
Here's the homework
Here's the references
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Please let me know If I'm doing this correctly because I feel like I'm doing something wrong here.
In textures, we're drawing implicitly vs explicitly. In cast shadows, there is never just a line on it's own, there's always a thickness to the line.
You want to look for the shapes that those shadows make, and because we're using fineliners there are no shades of greys or mid tones we can use to show the transition, we have to choose how much of that dark grey we color. As you get to the next step and draw your transition, you would color more of the grey closer to the left (darker side) then transition into only coloring the deepest bits of shadow on the left/lightest side.
I've had a quick paint over your paper example for the shapes I saw, your crumpled paper casts erratic, tapered shapes https://imgur.com/gE1KZJp
Do your best not to draw what you see, but the shadows you can observe.
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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