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Color Theory – Light and Shadow Demonstration On A Light Surface


Ron Lemen

Happy holidays everyone, my last post of the year.  I am going to I did push the shadow a little darker overall but it should still demonstrate how sun and sky influence what we see.  I'm using the stormtrooper like a cast drawing because of its lightness and how easy it is to see the light influence over the local colors.  This involves the fourth characteristic of color, the use of temperature.  Hue, Value, Chroma,…

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Playing With Others


Greg Ruth

November 22, 2024 - -By Greg Ruth   Oh the sweet brambles and peaceable meadows of collaboration... I have done this right and also so SO very wrong. Working in a creative partnership is tricky business indeed and yet it can yield incredible rewards if you manage to navigate it's pitfalls and successes well enough. The scale of that partnership can range from the cooperation between Editors & Art Directors to writing partners and even the wild and rare lands of co-painters. Each carries it's own set of rules, laws of physics and pitfalls, but they all share commonalities that I wish to impart from my many errors to you, so that you may be lucky enough to avoid them. That may be impossible, and most lessons, like the actuality of fire burning your finger when you touch it,…

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