Comic Trivia #33
Added 2020-03-25 15:00:03 +0000 UTCWhat is the colour of the shadow?
This is somewhat complicated subject, but for the sake of comic book colouring it can be boiled down to couple of simple rules.
Many beginner artsist make a mistake of using colour black for drawing shadows. Sometimes it's an artistic choice: I use black (set of 50% opacity) when I draw characters and objects already set in the dark, other than that I either tweak base colours or rely on Multiply layers.
The basic shadow recipe: take the base colour (hue) --
-- and turn it:
1. darker
2. more saturated
3. cooler or warmer:
For example, to create basic shadow colour for Lulu's coat:
I took the local colour:
Hue (colour): 202
Saturation (the amount of gray ): 87%
Brightness (how light or dark it is): 56%
And made some changes:
Hue changes to 197 -- towards cooler greens.
Saturation drops down to 82% (should go up instead, my bad!)
Brightness is reduced to 45%
(This changes a bit in the final version of the comic, when the saturation or hues are adjusted in the post-processing).
^_^
