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Way back in 2002, when I took the digital coloring class at SCAD taught by Durwin Talon, we did this exercise. Basically, Prof Talon had these this work sheet filled with repeating heads drawn from one of two art models. He would bring in these models and then light there heads and we would use a marker and draw the shadows. These have proven to be useful reference over the years when I've need some help creating interesting and accurate look shadows on characters faces.Lines- Durwin Talon
Marker tones- me
P.S. if anyone else out there has done something similar to this, I encourage you to post them on DA and let me know about it so I can link to them.
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Gosh I like this! I really really like this^^ Keep making more okay? Your doing great^^
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Haha Durwin is my Illustration teacher at Emily Carr!
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Lol, yeah, he's awesome. Even though the last time I ran into him he didn't remember who I was. But that's understandable, I was in only one class he taught at SCAD around 10 years ago. How was he to know that class would lead to my career.
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This is a lovely lighting resource. Thank you so much for sharing!
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This is the most helpful reference I've ever come across.
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what a reference source!
what happens if you need light on a face pointing right?
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You saved my ass with that below-the-chin lighting. Thanks
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It's pretty awesome how the faces just, like, change... Dramatically, in the feel and sort of 'personality' in mind with different lighting. All the same expressions and persons, but so many different feelings to them.
Yanno? :V
This is pretty spiff.
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Somehow I missed these. Thanks so much for adding them.
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This is incredibly helpful, as I usually just tend to wing it with a lot of shading.
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Oh WOW this is so useful! ;A; Thank you so much for uploading this.
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WOW this is useful especially now i'm studying light sources! thanks!
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No problem. If you really want to study light sources, you should do your own set of these. You learn more that way than just looking at the ones I did.
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y-you're right, experience is the best teacher right? thanks for the tip!
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No problem, I've been thinking of setting up some more lighting studies myself. The challenge nowadays is finding the time.
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This is very useful, I'll have to favorite it for future reference!
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lol, wish I could take complete credit for it but it was a class exercise. Unless you mean my idea of scanning them in and posting them on DA 8 years after I did this exercise is pure brilliance. That part was completely my idea.
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The part where you shaded it ;D
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yeah... though if you saw the originals I did the shadows in orange and blue highlighters. Thats the reason I scanned it in in grayscale. The neon colors get a bit distracting.
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haha well it looks pro. You'd never guess it was neon.
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This is a huge help, thank you for sharing this!
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great great great I always wanted a book that did something like this for Heads and Bodies but could never find one. Might be an idea for you make it similar to that 1000hands book.
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Thank you so much, I've been looking for this exactly, for so long.
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Super cool! Guys like Durwin make me wish I had gone to school!
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Yeah, school is cool
But it looks like you did ok without it.
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Ha, I do my best! Learning more every day hopefully.
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As far as coloring goes, going to SCAD just taught me the bare boned basics. The most important thing that it showed me was that I had a bit of talent towards color theory and art related computer programs, which is the reason I ended up pursuing a career as a colorist.
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Coach Talon really knows his way around color, he didn't share much of that in class?
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Well, there's only so much you can teach when it comes to color. Color theory is pretty common sense, cool colors recede, warm colors come forward, etc etc. The challenge is applying that knowledge and I think thats something you have to learn on your own.
As far as rendering goes, they just taught the Lee Loughridge way of coloring at SCAD, so mostly cut and grads with color holds. Not too complicated but I think its a great way to start. I think a lot of amateur colorists get hung up on renders and don't learn how to make their color choices pop. So starting with a simple rendering style and going from there is a good way to go. But thats just my opinion. I've gotten into heated debates about that topic before.
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Shoot, I just saw you're in VA beach, I was there two weeks ago! We could have totally geeked out on coloring!
I've enjoyed this exchange sir. I think I share some of your views on color obviously.
When my wife first saw Lee's work she said, "You're really rip this guy off huh?" ouch.
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lol, well if you're ever in VB again let me know.
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