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My recent piece have been very influenced by brandon liao , killartdev's work, especially the lighting part. In this piece i want to discuss about lighting.I did 2 examples here. My personal preference would be the left 1, more natural lighting. The right 1 would be more dynamic, and i believe more people will like it this way . So here I would like to ask, is lighting in such cases a matter of preference? Or is there still the hard rules like 3 point lighting and so on. Should i always go for what the majority love as well?
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everything is relative, this is especially true in the case for art! your best best for the bst results is to let the picture decide what lighting it should take on. during the build process you should feel it by instinct, anything else will look and feel forced but not your best outcome. (Food for thought) now do a collab with me lol.
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Western apears to be more vivid (also I'm more used to it) while korean has more style for my taste. The more i look on korean one the more I enjoy it over western tho on a blink of an eye western one apeared to be cooler. Over all i think i enjoy western one more (cause i did not stare enough on korean 
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I prefere the Korean one 
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I like the western art style lighting, even though it is further from reality. It does direct attention behind her head first, but then the attention goes from her face, to her figure and then to the arrow. And the Korean style goes in reverse direction, from the arrow to her face. But this is my opinion anyway.
So I choose western, by a hair's length.
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I love both, but for me, the left one wins by a smidge
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Don't think that it's anything else than a matter of habit.Β Those of us who had more contact with the western shading lighting style will prefer it,Β and the other way around.
At the moment western styles are very much about contrast and dynamism while eastern is more about natural colors, what the west describes as "muddy". Being used to contrast and special effects, I'll choose the right one.
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I totally agree with you on the muddy 1. 
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Unless you are trying to sell your art to a broad audience, you really shouldn't care what the majority thinks or likes, do what YOU think looks good
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I'd say lighting should go where you'd like the focus to be. So if you want to emphasize the arrow you should go for less saturated blue backlighting, and if you want to showcase the elf more globally the right could be the right choice. In any case it's better to avoid having two different light sources with the same importance.
Most of your colors are pretty desaturated, so, adding this powerful blue light source it makes it more pleasant to the eye and many should prefer this one, However I think it tend to flatten the image a little by bringingΒ what's in the background to the foreground (although the constrast seem better on the thumnail so the character detach itself more - yay I'm contradicting myself), so another route may have been to take the left one and put more emphasis on the front light and accentuate the volume of your character using more vivid colors in the midtones (I find it a little odd that the gauntlet has close to no light on it for example). You could still use some blue backlighting (or another colorlike green) at a lesser degree like on the left bottom corner in the picture on the right.
However I don't think there is really an absolute answer, it's usually a matter of what you want people to see (btw what is this thing about korean and western style lighting ?) and honestly I feel a little silly telling that to someone who is far better than me in digital painting XD.
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its not because of the lightning why people may pull more for the right one, but because you have "boring" colours for the left one, too greyish nothing make it pop out especially in small thumbnail, nothing to catch the attention.
What makes the right better that it has a colour focus people can look at and get the excitement to look the large image from thumbnail because the colour contrast making it interesting.Β
And those colours giving a lot better depth the the entire concept and composition, the character stands out more - so it has nothing to really do with the lightning, but the colour balance of the image imo -
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Colour balance in technical term is used to 'grade' a picture , film , photo. At this stage, its entirely lighting. Color balance is what you would do AFTER your image is completed. So say i would tint it, grade it or play the curves in RGB, that is color balancing. Whereas in this shot. What im doing is painting the light in and give more subtle details to the light source. Thats the difference
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I believe we do talk about different thing right now
I not meant here the post work where you editing the colour balance, but the entire colour palette from beginning you working with.Β
It is not technical I was mentioning but pure essential about use of colours and work from set up colour palette for your images from the beginning.
This two image you put up to compare has no any lightning difference at all - it is the same but one got a colour kick to put more attention on the lights strength (alias creating depth) while the other one has not.Β
The lights the same on both, just one feels more standing out because the additional blue simple changes the focus of the people looking at it and by it changing the entire atmosphere as well.Β
Talking different lightning would be similar like;
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What you did here is playing with depth and focus - and what I tried to tell that using more balanced colours (balanced in the meaning they have harmony with each other) would give a handful tool to make your works pop out and get more interesting look for your pictures. Sometimes a good use of colours (lightning wise as well) with not that detailed way present still can give a great and amazing look for an image.Β
While your poses and the energy in them are great, I think you could use some room for improvement with use of colours, but that is just my opinion. You improved a lot since the years I follow your work even if I comment rare time -
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I prefer the right because I feel like it reads easier and I just like more dynamic pieces anyway. Not that the left one doesn't have it's own charm, it's quite nice as well.
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I prefer the one on the left because the flow is clearer in the staging since all the colours direct to the pink but on the right the blue retracts from it, maybe on the right if the contrast/saturation was lower for the blue it would work out great
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I go to "what's pleasant to see"~ so, what's good to you? It's your art, if you want to go about "who loves what", think about what you love!
No technical opinion, sorry >////<
I prefer vivid, contrasting, colorful things, so I would go to #2. But it's me C:
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