Toolkit 2D - Value Studies

 

Toolkit 2D - Values

In this session, I experimented with values in an image to understand the composition of images more. I am not very confident with environment art at all, so I wanted to try this out until I understood it properly.
Before anything else, I turned the image black and white.
I then took the values, and contrasted them more to make them more noticeable from each other. I didn't want to end up with a mess of different shades of grey that are all close to each other.
I then painted over the image using the same values.
I was really unhappy with this attempt at studying values within an image, so I tried again. This time I found photos I took from a hike, which would be great for studying values.

I did the exact same method of working - changing the image to black and white, and extracting the values before painting over the image.
I honestly found this lesson really helpful. I feel this way of understanding values helps with understand how elements of a photo or composition bring it together. I didn't feel very confident with this however, so I did not try photo bashing with this in mind. As I grow more confident with environment work, I can imagine that I will come back to this.



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