Exactly! I have learnt so much from him especially mixing colour.

100% Facts

Yep

I mean, his channel is a whole school

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I think remembering the “rules” is more difficult (for me anyway) than understanding what’s happening. So for me, the guiding principle is: the place where the light hits the object is going to be the brightest. I used to put that same brightness in other places and it looked wrong, because this is not possible in nature. 1) figure out where the light is hitting the object - save that “color” to be used only for this, cannot use it anywhere else. 2) figure out where the light has hardest time reaching - save that color to be used only for this, nothing can be darker than this. It may be possible to go lighter and darker, but then it will create confusion because then it’ll look like these new places are darker/brighter. Unless you actually make that decision of course. For me, this used to be the mistake I made frequently. I’d just pick something brighter without realizing and then adjust things to match, I would lose the impact I was going for and the whole paining would have weak overall contrast. For your brightest color, you should be able to use highlights on top of it. And even the highlights which is the absolute brightest for your object, doesn’t need to be Maximum bright. Just need to maintain the relationship. For example you can load up a photo and reduce brightness slider. You can see everything is getting darker, but you can still recognize where the highlights are at. The more diffused the light source, the less pronounced the highlights will be. The highlights is what’s telling you how strong the light source is. For the darkest color you choose, it also doesn’t need to be absolute black possible. As long as there’s nothing darker, it will be perceived properly. So once you make these two choices you just have to stick with them.

The tricks I've learned over time basically come down to this: 1) light on the side the light is coming from, dark on the opposit side. 2) Certain objects/colors will reflect light on the other side. 3) If light comes from different directions so will shadows. 4) The brighter the light, the harsher the shadow. 5) If an object is being hit by two lights at once, the brighter light wins out when it comes to the light side. 6) Colored light leaves shadows of a complementary tone.

@@wordforger yup, #4 is very important for authentic look, both of those pieces of visual information make it feel believable. #6 makes it even more realistic

I took halftones to literally 😅

we can't blame ourselves - the person who named them is at fault :D!@@Andybowbandy

@@Silustrations Your right! He or she should have known art people can take things too literally like me self

You could have found it for free in many art instruction books in the public library. Books created by traditional artists. And/Or, you could have simply done life drawings of simple objects in order to study how light hits dimensional objects during different times of the day and under different lighting conditions. It's all good, AND, as always, practice makes perfect! Rendering is also the best way to describe what is being done (as opposed to the term "shading". Shade is what is found under trees. 🙃

​@@pat4005 Unfortunately not everywhere has libraries, which is an outrage as they are a very important part of local communities. They've been increasingly defunded the past half century in many areas.

He’s great and all buuuuuutttt *proko*

@@MaxDev I would take 5 vids from marco over 20 from proko at any time. He just explains thing in such a concise and cohesive way that even a non artist would understand the principles hes talking about. Maybe thats just the way I learn but Marcos content is top tier. His 10 minutes to better painting series is literally all you need in theory to understand how art works

I like him and sinix

@@summero-my5in Sinix is great!

@@allanredhill8682 fair, we learn differently and i’d do the same with proko videos

Crazy that a 14 minute video was all it took to make me start edging for 5 hours straight. Art videos are SO GOOD man

I’ve told my non art friends and beginner artists that really the magic just comes from light and shadow. You can use blue or purple, doesn’t matter but if you get the light and shadow right, the realism absolutely pops.

I recently got back into art after like 10 years of a creative block and it's so good to be back!!! I hope you start painting again soon!!