Foundations of Light and Shadow - Part 1 - Planes
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2013
- This is the first video in a series on basic lighting knowledge. I designed this for beginners who want to know the answer to questions like, "How do I know where to put light and shadow? How do I make things look three-dimensional?"
It's a really complicated subject, so I can't cover everything in a short and quick video. Instead of laying tons of concepts on you, I'm gonna take this slow and try to teach you in a way I wish I had been taught. Hopefully it'll be helpful!
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It is amazing how much better information you can get at a place like UA-cam, as opposed to a college or university.
What i love about your tutorials is that you dont just tell how to do something you get averything down to a science with in-depth explanations about how and why something is drawn the way it is. Keep em comin bro
Thanks a lot. There's a donate button on my channel if you feel you want to donate. It's always appreciated, but I'm happy enough to hear you liked the tutorial.
I had a billion "aha moments" during this series. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. :)
Finally: someone that has met me with explanations of light and shadow that are both grounded in the actual science AND basic enough for me at the beginner level of such an aspect to grasp and thus apply.
(THANK YOU)
wow, I've never heard of light and planes described in this way, extremely enlightening! Love your videos Sycra! Thank you so much for taking the time to do these, they are much appreciated!
' extremely enlightening!'
I see what you did there...
;)
I just went through this whole series and IMMEDIATELY my current illustration has improved! Amazing! Thank you SO MUCH!!
I thought I understood this in middle school when I was in art class but this is so much easier to follow, I feel like I can see it with my mind's eye- thanks for taking the time to make this even though most people watching your videos probably understand this
2017 and it's still relevant and good explained. One of my favorite courses on Light Theory.
I've been teaching myself to draw and never understood why edges had highlights until I watched your video. Thank you for explaining it!
Wow, you may say this is for beginners but I learned a lot. This is the first time I've heard about the perpendicular rule, it just opened my eyes!
YAY!!! Something I don't know for once!!! Now all I need is a video on color theory and my paintings won't look like crap
WOW!!! what a meticulous video, this is awesome in every way !!!!
Thank you so much for your tutorials, Sycra! I remember I started watching them around 4 years ago (when I was still a beginner) and even now the same ones are as helpful and as enlightening to me still.
Your learning about the foundations of the light & the shadows is interesting and very complete. Thanks Sycra !
This lesson couldn't have come at a more perfect time. This is exactly what I am studying right now and I always find Sycra's explanations very amazing and more easy to understand, so I learn so much more. This is exciting!
Amazing stuff. Especially the end about how the corner is highlighted. Of course I knew nothing is a perfect corner (or straight line, for that matter) but I never thought of it that way!
Shadows are the key to realism and depth, these really helped me out so incredibly much
whenever i see one of your videos on a topic i'm trying to learn, i always know i'll walk away understanding. Praise the Lord for you
This answers so many questions I had about drawing. Thank you so much for making this series.
These tutorials are priceless, thank you so much Sycra.
Best series yet!
Keep it up :D, your such an asset to the community
Thank you so much for making this videos!! I'm finally begginning to understand lighting and shadowing!! You explain everything so well!! You're a great inspiration!! I have read some books and tutorials about lighting but they always started with a 3D figure like a sphere and although I did the exercises, I couldn't understand it very well and has a lot of doubts but with your explanation with planes, I finally think I'm starting to understand it!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge Sycra!!^^
This isn't boring at all! There's power in knowledge man and you're giving us lots of it.It will save us alot of headaches later as well :) Thanks mate
Omg thanks man! i've been looking for a resource like this for YEARS!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge . There are so many people who would love to go to art school but because of money, age, location, family or work responsibilities they can't.
Your videos are like the Khan Academy of art -and they open up a world of possibilities. I would say you have a lot of great karma coming your way!
OMG! You are so talented teacher! I've never heard such entertaining explanation of that stuff.
Thanks for doing this video series! You helped me learn a lot about the use of light and shadow that I had trouble understanding.
Thanks for teaching about light and shadows. I have been struggling with it for a while as an artist. It just won't click with me. Then a teacher recommended your channel and now things are like clicking. They are starting to make sense. Thanks for sharing!!!
I have been waiting for this for a long time now!
Thank you, Sycra!!
You are amazing, thank you so much for the help. I'm currently getting ready to make my first video game and I decided to learn how to draw well and this is what I was looking for. Thank you again.
I Had every knowledge on my art for free... I plan to give it all free in the future.Everyone whome i'll teach should thank sycra, mark crilley, sinix, evan burse, reiq,saejin, jazza and every person who has a drawing tutorial in the net.
Sycra you're amazing!!! Thanks for this serie of videos. Im a beginner and from spain and you are helping me a lot!!
I'm seriously in love w you. Thank you Sycra!!!!
Sycraaaa!!! You're incredible amaizing and generous with the knowledge! Thank you a lot :)
I am glad I discovered you on UA-cam, Sycra.
ITS A LINE- ITS A PLANE
*no-*
it's Sycra teaching us!
Feel so inspired after watching your videos. Thanks!!!!
Thank you for doing this. I was just looking to get into this stage the other day, and being a complete beginner, it's hard to know where to start. So thanks again!
This whole series was super helpful. Thank you
Thank you for what you do for the art community. :)
Great video!
I love you, bro. Are you ok with that?
I saw he first!!!
thanks sycra! i wanted this videos a long time!
Love it ,looove it so simple ,no Jedi tricks
Thankyou for introducing this subject! I can barely find one that doesn't refer to only photogrophy students!
Thanx for the great help on this dunkect Sycra, it helped me a lot.
Woahhh this helped me so much! I never knew about midtones, thank you so much!
Awesome video, man. It does explain a lot better than most schools out there. I was lucky some awesome mentors to explain me all of this, cause before in ur standard art school they skip all of that information or either say it in a way that you don't get wtf their talking about.
There's one awesome line or a rule (which idk if its) that one of my mentors taught me. It was "form change means value change". I heard that from pretty much every artist I admired. I think Richard Schmid also said in his Alla Prima book. Anyways great vid. I'm gonna go over the whole series.
best drawing teacher ever!
Fantastic video, very informative. Thank you!
Sycra is like the Jesus of art. Thank you for saving us.
But in the first example where you did the highlight on the corner (14:58), all of the little planes in the corner would be facing away from the light. None of them would be perpendicular to the light. Actually they would be further from a right angle than the big face on the right where you made it moderately light. So surely they should be darker than this side? Not a very bright highlight? I'm a bit confused by this.
Thanks Sycra, these r things I learned in art school but you bring them into light so well :)
thank you so much for doing this!your teaching method is great
This is what I have been looking for or a long time!
wow, this will be awesome to watch
Finally got around to it, huh? I'm glad, these tutorials are great. Thanks for the hard work syrca. =D
Thank you for making this video Sycra it was really helpful!!! i look forward to more videos like this in the future :D
wow so detailed!! awesome
This is so helpful
Thanks!!!
Thanks so much for these lik tutorials~! It really helps!
Oh yeah , I'm giving you money. Damn man, what a great teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watched so many videos on here I’m a solid tattooed learned to draw from tattooing I know it sounds backwards but have trouble sometimes when shadeing different things I could make it work just not really understanding why and doing it bc I’ve seen it before. Just started part one and finally a video that I’m zoned in on makes sense
Really helpful tutorial, thank you so much.
So AWESOME! My drawing teacher did not talk about this at all...
I'm learning a lot! Thanks for this
Boom! It's a nose.
Great teaching.
OMFG! I having problem with this and your video is helping me so much!
your videos are amazing !
thank you so much Sycra!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
best teacher in the world.
This taught me so much more about light than school has, damn. Also for drawing this helps a crap-ton
Hmmm...I had never really thought about why corner's get highlights. Hope there's more interesting facts in the next videos.
Thank you for these tutorials
I always thought that those point highlights in Anime are just put there, so that it looks nice. Thanks for explaining this. :D
That was super good >< thank u for making this vid ^^
Brilliant! Thank you so much for this Sycra. Just what I needed! :-)
Thank you this is great! You have a new sub.
Thanks so much for explaining this.
Thanks a lot, now I understand why the corner is always the lightest
Sycra is awesome :D
Thank you very much, you are really good pen to share all these valuable information and knowledge for free, I hope all the people do these especially the clever ones, thanks and God bless you..
Than you so, so much, you are one of my prefered youtube art-masters
excellent Tutorial!
i love your videos!! They are so informative. Do you use a mouse for your artwork??
I've been drawing for 7 years by now... And I'm ashamed to say this actually helped me a lot with shading. I always did it by feel and it turned out okay, but I'm a logical person and this makes way more sense to me than doing it by feel. (never went to an art school, that's probably why lol)
This is best light tutorial very very helpfull..
i have some advice for people that are starting out in animation when your watching tutorials you should be animating as long as the teacher is also motion blurs can save alot of time and make it look nicer
This video has enlightened me...
Best teatcher ever!
Wow look at this guy! He's seen my sketch books and my work. Wait a minute, no you haven't. God forbid I post another comment on a video before fully watching it.
thanks for the videos, very helpful
Great tutorial, but I have some doubt about the part starting at 6:22. I don't think that the point is how many particles the wall receives, but how much is the angle of refraction. So perpendicular means more light that return to your eyes.
Thank you for your video!
Straight lines are done by holding down shift whilst you're drawing the line :)
Sycra, maybe you're a little bit mistaken at the 7:00 part. That slanting plane would take 5 light particles too if it were longer. I guess that not the amount of light particles makes it darker or lighter but the distance between points where those particles hit the plane.
Nice one, cheers
that moment when you check your subscriptions and see three Sycria videos.
Thank you. I have such a difficult time with plains.
This is perfect