Compositional Shadows

Creating a Comic Page

Line Weight, Shadows, and Rendering

Compositional Shadows

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Compositional Shadows

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David Finch
In this lesson, I'll show you how I go about creating compositional shadows.
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@lemayelyse
I am SO GRATEFUL for you calling out the little decisions here like "I'm adding a bit of brick shape to the edge of this building so it's not just a flat line", or "I'm shading the inner edge of this door to show the difference in plane" - never would have occurred to me. I'm taking copious notes on all those little emphasis details that add so much to the feel of a background without drawing an entire wall full of bricks. As well as pointing out that you can just... MAKE UP a shadow shape to frame your figures! (Me: "You can DO THAT???") Same with not shading the pipes. Honestly a bit of a mindblown moment that you can sacrifice logic for composition and it looks so great.
@nnnnnnnadie
Really opened my eyes to the light desing, the decition of not "shadowing" the pipes in favour of the compositional influence they have on the image is very valuable, not everything has to be chained to reality.
Pierre-Matthieu Furno
Hey Dave, thanks for the lessons ! In a next video, could you please explain how you shadow/render dark clothes on a character please ? I don't really know how to go about it and therefore I just render as if the material was not close to a black color but then it just seems like a waste of time when I color the art because all lines desappear.... Thanks again for all the lessons ! have a good one 😊
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