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Top 10 Tonal Value Tips
Topic Started: 10 Apr 2011 - 15:42 (1,385 Views)
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Philip Straub shares his secrets


1 LIGHT
All objects in nature are made visible to us by some form of light source.
The form of all objects in the world simply wouldn’t be apparentwithout light.
My editorial illustration, below, is a simpleexample of the importance of light.


2 SHADOW
If an illuminated object is more or less opaque, when the light is obscured by that object, the resulting shadow is a darker version of the object’s colour.
By virtue of shadow, all objects of nature assume form or shape.


3 HALFTONES
Halftones that utilise texture and colour should be used in the area where light affects the surface of an object and should be made brighter than they appear.
Those that describe form should be applied to the shadow area of the object and should be darker.


5 CONTRAST

Contrast is derived from a comparison between two or more elements. Most concept artists will create the highest point of value contrast at the focal point, or the place where they want the viewer to look.


6 POSITIVE/NEGATIVE
Positive space is usually defined by the areas of a painting or drawing that are occupied by a form.
Negative space is the areas of the painting or drawing that are not occupied by forms.
It’s important to remember the balanceof positive and negative shapes.


7 UNITY
Like contrast, unity is an element that describes a relationship between two or more elements or objects within a composition.
Unlike contrast, however, unity usually describes such relationships within the context of the composition as a whole.
Unity can be said to define how any one element or group of elements is related to the rest of the composition.


4 FORM
It’s possible to have form without line, and to have line without form, but usually where one exists so does the other.
I’d argue form truly defines the shape of an object.


9 BACKGROUND, MIDDLE GROUND, FOREGROUND

Thinking of your value structure as three separate plains in space – background, middle ground, and foreground – will simplify how you deal with your overall value structure.


10 LINE
Most drawing relies heavily upon line as a means of defining objects.
While painting also uses line as a means of definition, it often relies upon it as a sort of infrastructure upon which the rest of the value structure is built.
This infrastructure of line may be hidden in the final painting, but its influence dictates what the viewer sees.

Source: www.imaginefx.com
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