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AbyssalEmissary In reply to ihsangazi [2014-02-09 19:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to AppleBeard [2013-09-13 18:10:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! The lighting is always critical because it can look really awkwars when you mess up. Glad it worked here.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to HeartinaRosebud [2013-09-11 17:24:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Guess Scootaloo thinks the same.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to BlueWolf-2020 [2013-09-11 17:08:57 +0000 UTC]

Which one of the Scootaloos do you refer to? And thank you very much once again. I begin to really like this rough way to draw and shade. Bought a new really black pencil today. This should help for drawings like this.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to ABronyAccount [2013-09-11 17:02:18 +0000 UTC]

You mean you want me to enlighten you?

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ABronyAccount In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-11 17:13:44 +0000 UTC]

Shed some light on it, if you don't mind. I'd like to be illuminated.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to ABronyAccount [2013-09-11 21:17:35 +0000 UTC]

Hm, I would like to do so, but I don't know what the special trick is or of there even is one.

I decide where the source of light shall be. Then I shade the far side of any objects or body parts pretty strong and the "not so far" side not so strong, creating a gradient. Sometimes I smear the edges with caution using a finger or don't do this step when I want the rough style. For the shadows on the ground it helps to think with lines (not portals this time) or to draw very thin lines from the source of light as the vanishing point. So you have an orientation for where the shadows must be. Then I draw them, a dark cone first, not so dark edges and more and more blurred and less dark the farther away from the object you are. See "Umbra" at Wikipedia for the parts of the shadow called umbra, penumbra and antumbra I try to create this way.

In the end it is a mixture of geometry, spatial sense and training. And a lot of the pencils lead. Hope this sheds at least some light on it.

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ABronyAccount In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-11 21:20:23 +0000 UTC]

tl,dr

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to ABronyAccount [2013-09-11 21:30:35 +0000 UTC]

In a nutshell: Draw shadows when there is no light. Search Wikipedia for "Umbra". Practice. Be enlightened.

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ABronyAccount In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-11 21:41:27 +0000 UTC]

But what about when I'm NOT in a nutshell? WHAT THEN???

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to ABronyAccount [2013-09-11 21:59:27 +0000 UTC]

Um, good question. I never tried to draw outside a nutshell, so I have no idea.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to EccentricBloodstone [2013-09-11 17:23:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I guess I will do more of this light and shadow. Not just because it is fun.

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EccentricBloodstone In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-11 19:17:08 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome You can make you feel like because  it can be fun

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to NinjaEngie [2013-09-11 17:10:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Was the perfect way to disguise adult Scoots cutie mark. *g*

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NinjaEngie In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-12 09:24:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, true!

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to RandomCPV [2013-09-11 17:04:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Funnily enough the background was not planned that way but needed to be rough due to the lack of time. So the foggy effect was the best I could do to make it not look ugly.

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AbyssalEmissary In reply to madmenice [2013-09-11 01:10:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Although it needs some refinement.

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madmenice In reply to AbyssalEmissary [2013-09-11 01:11:38 +0000 UTC]

ok... the duesenberg... *walks off talking to self* beuty... beuty beuty beuty...

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