TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Cut Flowers Chapter 2 Cover
I've been hard at work evenings and days off, getting Chapter 2 of my comic Cut Flowers finished. It's finally complete and off to the printers! One of the great side benefits of a big personal project like this is the opportunity to experiment. Since this isn't for a client or art director, I'm only risking wasting my own time by trying out new mediums and techniques. So I decided to bring beadwork into the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Cinematic Lighting for Outdoor Concepts
February 5, 2025 - Here are a couple of lighting methods I use to help my outdoor concepts work better. These work well on interiors also but interiors will probably be a later post. I’m sure there might be a name for this already but I’ve been calling it Broken Lighting in my head so I’ll do so here. Here is a plane with the sunlight at high noon. There might be a project where this is what the scene calls for but for now let’s change this and use light to create depth and space. In this image I added a cucoloris, sometimes called a kook, to simulate cloud cover. It’s that ugly looking thing I’d have to probably paint out in the sky at the top of frame. In film they use kooks on sets to break…
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