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PurpleWarroir In reply to MichelleBergeron [2014-07-06 18:30:32 +0000 UTC]

thanks!  ( óヮò )
I just love drawing these so much my gosh

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PurpleWarroir In reply to maybelletea [2014-05-24 11:36:06 +0000 UTC]

I've actually been meaning to share some of my art secrets hahaha, so I could tell you as much as this
as you noted in one of your comments, I edit my pictures digitally fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/201… (a lot)
but as you can see, there already are distinct shadows and highlights in my original painting.
It's mostly a matter of creating a lot of contrast between the lights and the shadows. The darker your shadows and lighter your highlights, the more dramatic your lighting will look. When it comes to painting highlights and shadows itself, it's important you colour your highlights first (or leave them blank, white is the lightest colour after all), and layer your darker colours and shadows on top of that.
but you can always add in new shadows and highlights digitally, just because you can (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
you  could also look up some tutorials on contrast and lighting, deviantart is pretty resourceful when it comes to those things (:

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maybelletea In reply to PurpleWarroir [2014-05-24 17:04:42 +0000 UTC]

Ooh wow okay you edit them a lot more than I realized! I'd love to somehow achieve your end result with just watercolor, but it's so difficult to paint lighting imo. ;_;

Thank you so much for explaining!!

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PurpleWarroir In reply to maybelletea [2014-05-25 22:08:17 +0000 UTC]

well that's actually the thing with water colouring, you don't paint the lighting, but you paint and build up your colours and shadows around it! I made the mistake in the past where I just started colouring everything, but you have to pick your light areas before hand and colour them really light or not at all and then just leave them. A small trick that also helps me is sketching really light guide lines for my highlights where my light areas will be, so that I know where NOT to put the darker olours that I will be layering on top.
Also I spend a good time looking at pretty pictures with dramatic lighting hahaha, studying and looking at references will give you a great sense of lighting or art in general, eventually (:

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maybelletea In reply to PurpleWarroir [2014-05-27 23:26:51 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah true, I know! I've been watercoloring for years too- but I guess when I said painting lighting, I meant creating the lighting with the paint.

But yes good idea, I'm gonna study dramatic lighting more. :D

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