Making of Set Out for Loverby T.G. Jay Web: www.tgjay.com


Last but not least, light fog can emphasize the object you want to describe more. It increase the contract of the entire image, catch up your eyeball easily. If you want, you can also add some dusts in the light fog.


Colors can help you travel further

It’s difficult to describe the color theory in such a short tutorial. But you can recognize the difference between the image with color and the one without color.


I think the first part of image06 is without color though you could see blue tone in it since only one color tone describes sketch relations rather than color relations. Light is in all the guises in which we encounter it on a daily basis. There are hundreds of colors. Which color shall we choose? It’s a general rule that combination of warm and cold color makes the image alive. Then, let’s talk about “Set out for Lover”. It is a green-tone image which belongs to neither cold tone nor warm tone. Most area of the image are filled with green and cyan, so the warm area in middle of the image which is the key area and visual Center seems to be prominent.

Moreover, we usually think the area without lightening should be dark. But extremely dark in the painting is uncomfortable. In fact, everything in the scene is illuminated. Some areas get less light while others get more. The less that receives the light from environment reflection is in cold tone rather than extremely dark.

Then, how about warm tone. In my work, fire brings the warm tone. Red, orange, yellow are all in warm tone. The place near fire should be bright yellow while he place far away from fire should be dark red.

Leaves

Here I will show you two photos.


The first one describes the back light effect of hundreds of leaves. The leaves on the edge are bright and saturated. The second one describes the different between the front side and the back side of the leaf. The front side appears darker with high reflectivity. The back side seems to be translucent. That’s all! Actually, we can paint leaves now. But before we start, we’d better know something about shading.


Shaders are used to determine the relationship of color and illumination. What is the relationship of translucent and color? It seems to be more saturated near the terminator when objects look translucent. And the front side and back side of leaves have different relationships. The picture below shows five shaders.


The last one is the shader of leaf. You also can see the relationship of color and illumination.