Find your way around Landscapes and Environments by Iduna-Haya, journal
Find your way around Landscapes and Environments
Landscape Weekend
Welcome to another FywaDA! This time I have collected a large amount of resources that will hopefully help you improve your landscape and environment drawing skills.
Before we move on, I would like to give a very brief explanation of the difference between landscapes, environments and backgrounds.
A landscape is a painting or drawing which depicts a scene somewhere. This can be in the countryside, the city ('cityscape'), near water ('waterscape'), or anywhere you like. There can be characters in the image, but the main focuss is on the overall scene. The character (if there are any) is there to enhance the landscape. (ex
Lighting In Art: Ambient Occlusion For 2D Artists by TheGalleryOfEve, journal
Lighting In Art: Ambient Occlusion For 2D Artists
Lighting In Art Week
Ambient occlusion is a rendering technique mostly known in 3D art, but which has been also successfully implemented by 2D artists for quite some time.
In computer graphics, ambient occlusion is sophisticated ray-tracing calculation, which allows you to simulate the soft shadows that happen in cracks, crevices and intersections of surfaces, where the ambient light is darker or even blocked.
It's all about distance ...
The farther the object surface from the light, the more occluded (and darker) the lighting becomes, and it is these soft shadows that help define the separation between objects in the composition, resulti
Making an Original Character (Collab Tutorial) by Shadow-Hyder, literature
Literature
Making an Original Character (Collab Tutorial)
For many beginners, creating a character of your own is a daunting task. A good, strong character is as important as a plot, if not more so. With no character, there’s no reason for a plot and so on. However, you cannot just make up a name, slap a face to it, and call it a character. That’s not a character, that’s a concept. A true character is much more than a name and a face. After all, real life people are not just a name and face are they? Nope. So sit back and enjoy, because we’re gonna walk your through some of the basics to building a character.
Shadow-Hyder here writing this horrible intro, and I will be usin