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As I have said 100s of times, I never took art classes. I never had the desire to draw realistic people all the time and we never had a cartooning class. I learned all my stuff from being in theater. So lighting (shading and highlighting) is often the thing people most like about my art. The ability to create mood I believe greatly comes not just as an artist but the creative in the dramatic way. Just a lighting is probably the biggest things to bring mood to a play or a movie, it is the same for your pictures. The angel the light is coming from, the colour of the light all brings out the mood of the picture.

A fun exercise for those of you interested in working harder on this is pick out a live action movie that you like. Go look up some pictures on the internet of it. Get about 10 pictures of some of the scenes. (Or even grab a magazine and flip through it for pictures.) With each picture ask yourself where the light is coming from, and what is the feeling you are getting from it. It is cool colours or warm colours. Some can be hard some can be easy. I have several pictures on my walls right now of my favorite movies and actors and like 14 movie posters and such and I like to look at them sometimes and see the moods of lighting in them to get ideas. It is hard to find a flat realistic picture with NO lighting or shadowing. By doing this it will help you understand the look of the light with the mood. I found that to be the BIGGEST help in my lighting design classes. I wish we got to watching the movies and looking at scenes with interesting lighting. But you can try that on your own. Next time your at the movies think about it... it will help create mood in your pictures so much more if you step outside the traditional art and look into a more familiar use of lighting to us.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

And wow before I start the other one I need to turn off my computer and give it a break.

(EDIT: Here is a good link to find sevral tutorials. [link] Instead of putting just a few links. This has almost everything you could imagine. Hopefully all are still working.)

Description
As I have said 100s of times, I never took art classes. I never had the desire to draw realistic people all the time and we never had a cartooning class. I learned all my stuff from being in theater. So lighting (shading and highlighting) is often the thing people most like about my art. The ability to create mood I believe greatly comes not just as an artist but the creative in the dramatic way. Just a lighting is probably the biggest things to bring mood to a play or a movie, it is the same for your pictures. The angel the light is coming from, the colour of the light all brings out the mood of the picture.

A fun exercise for those of you interested in working harder on this is pick out a live action movie that you like. Go look up some pictures on the internet of it. Get about 10 pictures of some of the scenes. (Or even grab a magazine and flip through it for pictures.) With each picture ask yourself where the light is coming from, and what is the feeling you are getting from it. It is cool colours or warm colours. Some can be hard some can be easy. I have several pictures on my walls right now of my favorite movies and actors and like 14 movie posters and such and I like to look at them sometimes and see the moods of lighting in them to get ideas. It is hard to find a flat realistic picture with NO lighting or shadowing. By doing this it will help you understand the look of the light with the mood. I found that to be the BIGGEST help in my lighting design classes. I wish we got to watching the movies and looking at scenes with interesting lighting. But you can try that on your own. Next time your at the movies think about it... it will help create mood in your pictures so much more if you step outside the traditional art and look into a more familiar use of lighting to us.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

And wow before I start the other one I need to turn off my computer and give it a break.

(EDIT: Here is a good link to find sevral tutorials. [link] Instead of putting just a few links. This has almost everything you could imagine. Hopefully all are still working.)