Foundations of Light and Shadow - Part 1 - Planes

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  • @markwhitchurch4521
    @markwhitchurch4521 10 років тому +176

    It is amazing how much better information you can get at a place like UA-cam, as opposed to a college or university.

    • @imcrimson8618
      @imcrimson8618 4 місяці тому

      Back then. I have to scavenge my way thru bs just to find gems like this.

  • @marquesmartinez730
    @marquesmartinez730 8 років тому +51

    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

  • @ineffablewhune
    @ineffablewhune 11 років тому +2

    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)

  • @Sycra
    @Sycra  11 років тому +22

    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.

  • @ravenhana4841
    @ravenhana4841 10 років тому +57

    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!

  • @SamsTheBams
    @SamsTheBams 10 років тому +29

    I had a billion "aha moments" during this series. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. :)

  • @ricardofranco7419
    @ricardofranco7419 7 років тому +2

    I just went through this whole series and IMMEDIATELY my current illustration has improved! Amazing! Thank you SO MUCH!!

  • @leafletleaflet
    @leafletleaflet 4 роки тому +2

    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

  • @kupotenshi
    @kupotenshi 11 років тому

    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!

  • @polinakorneeva8968
    @polinakorneeva8968 7 років тому +1

    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.

  • @whiskitty
    @whiskitty 10 років тому +4

    I've been teaching myself to draw and never understood why edges had highlights until I watched your video. Thank you for explaining it!

  • @feneron5797
    @feneron5797 7 років тому +5

    2017 and it's still relevant and good explained. One of my favorite courses on Light Theory.

  • @TMGChemicals
    @TMGChemicals 11 років тому

    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!

  • @stellarious7905
    @stellarious7905 6 років тому

    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

  • @parrotplays7
    @parrotplays7 4 роки тому

    Shadows are the key to realism and depth, these really helped me out so incredibly much

  • @bethdrummond5763
    @bethdrummond5763 11 років тому

    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!

  • @Enzo_Matrix92
    @Enzo_Matrix92 11 років тому

    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

  • @willl0014
    @willl0014 10 років тому +1

    WOW!!! what a meticulous video, this is awesome in every way !!!!

  • @Dafrogie
    @Dafrogie 11 років тому

    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

  • @dereck3o3
    @dereck3o3 8 років тому +1

    Your learning about the foundations of the light & the shadows is interesting and very complete. Thanks Sycra !

  • @SoundIMD
    @SoundIMD 10 років тому +2

    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!

  • @numgun
    @numgun 10 років тому +1

    This answers so many questions I had about drawing. Thank you so much for making this series.

  • @SquidneyLuvsYou
    @SquidneyLuvsYou 11 років тому +1

    Ahhh thank you so much for this. I'm self-taught and I'm applying to art colleges right now so this really helped a lot with my observational pieces.

  • @cashorcheck1
    @cashorcheck1 10 років тому +1

    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.

  • @MrsGarrisson
    @MrsGarrisson 7 років тому

    OMG! You are so talented teacher! I've never heard such entertaining explanation of that stuff.

  • @Tsuyu87
    @Tsuyu87 8 років тому +1

    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!!^^

  • @LogicalMayhem00
    @LogicalMayhem00 10 років тому +5

    Best series yet!
    Keep it up :D, your such an asset to the community

  • @KyleKatarn145
    @KyleKatarn145 11 років тому

    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!

  • @felixJrUrot-xx5em
    @felixJrUrot-xx5em 11 років тому

    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.

  • @samturner2722
    @samturner2722 11 років тому

    These tutorials are priceless, thank you so much Sycra.

  • @Lok42Hunt
    @Lok42Hunt 11 років тому

    Sycra you're amazing!!! Thanks for this serie of videos. Im a beginner and from spain and you are helping me a lot!!

  • @fazalcheema9706
    @fazalcheema9706 8 років тому +8

    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.

  • @markwhitchurch4521
    @markwhitchurch4521 10 років тому

    I am glad I discovered you on UA-cam, Sycra.

  • @Shinesketches
    @Shinesketches 11 років тому

    Sycra is like the Jesus of art. Thank you for saving us.

  • @JorgeValentinCruz
    @JorgeValentinCruz 11 років тому +1

    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.

  • @jaalexander6067
    @jaalexander6067 11 років тому

    Thanks Sycra, these r things I learned in art school but you bring them into light so well :)

  • @anaconda7540
    @anaconda7540 3 роки тому

    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

  • @montezia93
    @montezia93 11 років тому

    Omg thanks man! i've been looking for a resource like this for YEARS!

  • @Rigtinn
    @Rigtinn 11 років тому

    I have been waiting for this for a long time now!
    Thank you, Sycra!!

  • @pensmith
    @pensmith 10 років тому

    Thanks for doing this video series! You helped me learn a lot about the use of light and shadow that I had trouble understanding.

  • @F3line_Fine
    @F3line_Fine 3 роки тому +1

    ITS A LINE- ITS A PLANE
    *no-*
    it's Sycra teaching us!

  • @tillaaayy
    @tillaaayy 5 років тому

    I'm seriously in love w you. Thank you Sycra!!!!

  • @LuisVivar
    @LuisVivar 11 років тому +94

    I love you, bro. Are you ok with that?

  • @tasneema.156
    @tasneema.156 4 роки тому

    This whole series was super helpful. Thank you

  • @IgneousRocks22
    @IgneousRocks22 11 років тому

    Thank you for what you do for the art community. :)
    Great video!

  • @soupandrocks
    @soupandrocks 4 роки тому

    Woahhh this helped me so much! I never knew about midtones, thank you so much!

  • @GrazyDarkie
    @GrazyDarkie 11 років тому

    Thanx for the great help on this dunkect Sycra, it helped me a lot.

  • @stoyanatanasov3749
    @stoyanatanasov3749 8 років тому +2

    Love it ,looove it so simple ,no Jedi tricks

  • @svitlana-matus
    @svitlana-matus 10 років тому

    Sycraaaa!!! You're incredible amaizing and generous with the knowledge! Thank you a lot :)

  • @roflstomplolmao
    @roflstomplolmao 10 років тому

    Feel so inspired after watching your videos. Thanks!!!!

  • @DaetB
    @DaetB 11 років тому

    thanks sycra! i wanted this videos a long time!

  • @hyfytale9577
    @hyfytale9577 7 років тому +1

    Thankyou for introducing this subject! I can barely find one that doesn't refer to only photogrophy students!

  • @PoukhFaye
    @PoukhFaye 11 років тому

    best teacher in the world.

  • @noafuuma8922
    @noafuuma8922 11 років тому

    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)

  • @sagadoexe
    @sagadoexe 11 років тому +2

    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.

  • @erickharianto9116
    @erickharianto9116 5 років тому +2

    What if the one that face 2 particles has longer surface so it gets 5 light particles???

  • @marcotronic
    @marcotronic 7 років тому

    best drawing teacher ever!

  • @shannonmb3930
    @shannonmb3930 11 років тому

    So AWESOME! My drawing teacher did not talk about this at all...

  • @ookpaia
    @ookpaia 11 років тому

    Finally got around to it, huh? I'm glad, these tutorials are great. Thanks for the hard work syrca. =D

  • @Jaskatzu
    @Jaskatzu 11 років тому

    Hmmm...I had never really thought about why corner's get highlights. Hope there's more interesting facts in the next videos.

  • @gr8k4an
    @gr8k4an 11 років тому

    This is what I have been looking for or a long time!

  • @octoberlassie
    @octoberlassie 5 років тому

    Thank you so much. This is invaluable to me, and no one has explained this to me so well.

  • @Taesis
    @Taesis 11 років тому

    Thank you for making this video Sycra it was really helpful!!! i look forward to more videos like this in the future :D

  • @MySelfMyCeliumMyCell
    @MySelfMyCeliumMyCell 3 роки тому

    Oh yeah , I'm giving you money. Damn man, what a great teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @brutalhorns
    @brutalhorns 11 років тому

    wow, this will be awesome to watch

  • @Pegisus2501
    @Pegisus2501 10 років тому +5

    Brilliant! Thank you so much for this Sycra. Just what I needed! :-)

  • @tsdinh81
    @tsdinh81 8 років тому

    Thanks a lot, now I understand why the corner is always the lightest

  • @stephennguyen1064
    @stephennguyen1064 2 місяці тому

    Very Detailed Lessons…!! Thanks 🙏!.

  • @TwoGamingDudes1
    @TwoGamingDudes1 9 років тому +1

    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

  • @thisotherrandomdude
    @thisotherrandomdude 9 років тому

    This taught me so much more about light than school has, damn. Also for drawing this helps a crap-ton

  • @Lalealy
    @Lalealy 11 років тому

    I always thought that those point highlights in Anime are just put there, so that it looks nice. Thanks for explaining this. :D

  • @wmichaelbooth
    @wmichaelbooth 11 років тому

    Boom! It's a nose.
    Great teaching.

  • @hassanjunaidqurashi7657
    @hassanjunaidqurashi7657 9 років тому +1

    i love your videos!! They are so informative. Do you use a mouse for your artwork??

  • @Shahil51
    @Shahil51 6 років тому

    Fantastic video, very informative. Thank you!

  • @spinogeno8206
    @spinogeno8206 11 років тому

    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..

  • @korboat
    @korboat 5 років тому +1

    your videos are amazing !

  • @xfalsetruth06x
    @xfalsetruth06x 6 років тому

    I might have a hard time understanding, but even on the corner of our folded piece of paper (when the light is coming in from the right horizontally), what plane on the corner could be perpendicular to the incoming light to create the highlight? Out of all the planes incl those that make up the corner, the large side on the right is the most perpendicular, right?

  • @kreuzbones906
    @kreuzbones906 7 років тому

    This video has enlightened me...

  • @Tandervic
    @Tandervic 11 років тому

    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.

  • @PostBoxRomance
    @PostBoxRomance 11 років тому

    Straight lines are done by holding down shift whilst you're drawing the line :)

  • @drunkenwilly22
    @drunkenwilly22 11 років тому

    thank you so much for doing this!your teaching method is great

  • @waffles2077
    @waffles2077 3 роки тому

    Thank you for these tutorials

  • @bunnycat102
    @bunnycat102 11 років тому

    wow so detailed!! awesome

  • @JohnDoe-e4o
    @JohnDoe-e4o 11 років тому

    OMFG! I having problem with this and your video is helping me so much!

  •  11 років тому

    Than you so, so much, you are one of my prefered youtube art-masters

  • @jettoscranda
    @jettoscranda 8 років тому

    Sycra is awesome :D

  • @mhwgodsquad6743
    @mhwgodsquad6743 4 місяці тому

    Great video bro!!

  • @ivegyattocomment
    @ivegyattocomment 11 років тому

    thank you so much Sycra!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

  • @skodds
    @skodds 11 років тому

    Best teatcher ever!

  • @VenomTestament
    @VenomTestament 11 років тому

    Really helpful tutorial, thank you so much.

  • @JayDay04
    @JayDay04 4 роки тому

    I'm learning a lot! Thanks for this

  • @Enzo_Matrix92
    @Enzo_Matrix92 11 років тому

    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.

  • @xXDisturbedFoxXx
    @xXDisturbedFoxXx 11 років тому

    Thanks so much for these lik tutorials~! It really helps!

  • @astamite-
    @astamite- 10 років тому +6

    "So we have our light particles..:" *draws waves*
    Are you saying light is both particles and waves or something?

    • @emilygu2840
      @emilygu2840 10 років тому +12

      both particles and waves~ yeah~

    • @parheliaa
      @parheliaa 10 років тому +7

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality

    • @lumix3855
      @lumix3855 4 роки тому +2

      Light is a wave, a particle, and a joke.

    • @rr.studios
      @rr.studios 3 роки тому +1

      @@lumix3855 He's also a genius

  • @sweetjackies
    @sweetjackies 11 років тому

    Thanks so much for explaining this.

  • @nwcdancer
    @nwcdancer 11 років тому

    Heyy that's the best tutorial I've ever seen about Shading. I want to support u and donate. Where can I donate for you?

  • @ceciliethorsen4966
    @ceciliethorsen4966 11 років тому

    "how to choose colors that work", also Sycra, is great, if you haven't seen it already. ^^

  • @guitarimi23
    @guitarimi23 8 років тому

    What program were u using for this lesson/demo?

  • @franciscodesouza908
    @franciscodesouza908 11 років тому

    excellent Tutorial!

  • @lisamaier9984
    @lisamaier9984 7 років тому

    Thank you. I have such a difficult time with plains.