Definitely learned a lot from drawing this cast. I thought since I have an idea what the first stage of a light/ shadow shape is about, I wanted to challenge myself with very smooth transitions of values in the light shape. In particular, identifying and breaking down more shapes that are closer in values. I do think that after this I should go back and focus on the shadow lines once again, since I did find out how important it is. It makes all the difference!
I thought about being lazy and just use simple app to compose the step images like this (image on the left); but I really did not want to be the multimedia specialist with the worst image layout style *0*. So it took some more time finishing this post, editing on this poor tiny laptop.
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First I made a mistake by putting in shadow value too early, before I have a proper shadow line established. Erased that.
reestablished the shadow line. Then put back in a single value in the shadow. (below)
I put in the back ground to the darkest, which is called Keying. Then I go around comparing the relation between values next to each other to their relation with the background value and lighten/ darken accordingly.
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