Light Source: Creating the Illusion of Depth
In this airbrush how to tutorial Tom Banks aka: Big daddy will go over creating the illusion of depth in your airbrush projects, painting. Understanding how a light source would effect the subject, subjects in your painting is essential to creating the illusion of depth.
Choosing a light source, and understanding how it works is a basic fundamental to custom painting. When working with any scheme that has layers or depth this must be one of the first things that you must determine.
To paint an image that looks 3-dimensional (having depth) we use highlights and shadows. In order to have a highlight or shadow present there must be a light source (otherwise, you are sitting in a dark room, and can't see anything).
Now, imagine I put a light bulb in the top corner, and I turn that light bulb on. The light will radiate outwards in all the directions of my arrows.
When I paint any 3-dimensional object in the center, you can see how all my highlights and shadows make sense to that single light source.
It is very important to remember that once you choose a light source, EVERYTHING that you do from that point on ALL makes sense to that Light Source! If not, then the illusion will not work as well, as our minds subconsciously already know what it should look like.
Tom Banks:
Big Daddy Customs is located about an hour north of Pittsburgh, PA. I To see more of Big D’s work and information about free custom paint demonstrations, go to www.BigDaddyCustoms.net
Copyrights :Airhead Airbrush.Com , Inc. Reserved No part of this tutorial may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Airhead Airbrush. Com , Inc.
To paint an image that looks 3-dimensional (having depth) we use highlights and shadows. In order to have a highlight or shadow present there must be a light source (otherwise, you are sitting in a dark room, and can't see anything).
When I paint any 3-dimensional object in the center, you can see how all my highlights and shadows make sense to that single light source.
It is very important to remember that once you choose a light source, EVERYTHING that you do from that point on ALL makes sense to that Light Source! If not, then the illusion will not work as well, as our minds subconsciously already know what it should look like.
Tom Banks:
Big Daddy Customs is located about an hour north of Pittsburgh, PA. I To see more of Big D’s work and information about free custom paint demonstrations, go to www.BigDaddyCustoms.net
Copyrights :Airhead Airbrush.Com , Inc. Reserved No part of this tutorial may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Airhead Airbrush. Com , Inc.
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