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Greyscale and lighting practice

Added 2018-06-02 14:21:09 +0000 UTC

Sorry that I actually uploaded one of this practice earlier on my twitter, because I planned to upload the finished version on my Patreon. After that I began to add details and realized this process will lead to a full-realistic style painting. Then I decide to stop and think of other painting method. (if I fail I may return to finish this work)

Being an fan-artist who is supposed to find the balance between fantasy and realism, I found this approach will rely too heavy on photo reference, and I still need to avoid just copying from the reference, because I don't actually own them. If I don't pay enough attention to refine every brush stroke or adding more values, it will become a dull copy which looks like a photo. And if I do, even a simple portrait will take a very long time to finish. Which means timewise it is almost impossible if I want to make a more complex and dynamic painting.

I just start to do another practice today. Maybe I'll post another result in next few days.

灰階和光影練習，其實前幾天就先PO在推特上，當時本來想畫更完整之後貼上Patreon，但接下來的細化一直越畫越崩，越崩就越想找資料，越找資料就越怕只是在抄資料，然後越添加細節越感覺哪裡不對，好像整張圖會越來越像照片。

當然啦假如在顏色、筆觸、光影等方面做點手腳的話是可以避免看起來太像照片，但無論如何就是會變得非常依賴參考資料。做為一個插畫繪者，老實說我並不想走到這麼寫實(攏汗)，我真正想做的只是「設計」角色的造型結構和整體構圖、並賦予視覺上還算合理的光影效果，而不是整個細節都從現實世界或3D模組直接搬過來。再者是這樣畫真的超級花時間，基本不太可能挑戰一些比較動態、誇張化、或更複雜的構圖。要嘛就畫崩，要嘛畫得太死。

今天下午我著手開始嘗試另外一種畫法，目前看來好像還有點希望。也許過幾天能把另外嘗試的成果放上來。