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Anonymous01/27/26, 23:13No.7868834
How do you even get into /rendering/ or /shading/? I'm so scared of color.
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Anon01/27/26, 23:30No.7868843
Try learning to shade by making art using one color. It’ll teach you values and the range of one specific color
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Anon01/27/26, 23:35No.7868848
Try the exercise where you copy the values of a photo into 1 or 2 values then break it down into 5 values for rendering practice.For coloring practice do color studies. Paint pretty sunsets from Pinterest. Paint interesting lighting. Pretty soon your ability to identify colors and replicate them will improve subconsciously
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Anon01/27/26, 23:53No.7868861
the background has an effect on the value and colours
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Anon01/28/26, 00:06No.7868868
yeah good luck getting digital brushes that look like that lmao
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Anon01/28/26, 09:44No.7869133
Notan B&W thumbnail value studies. Takes years to get good at it.
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Anon01/28/26, 14:26No.7869221
Shading is derived from construction. If you can wrap lines around an object like a 3D model mesh, you can do simple monochromatic shading by figuring out where the shadow's terminus is, or the edge where the surface turns away from the light enough to be occluded from the light, and to map out the cast shadows across the form's surface. Rendering is basically determining how soft or hard the edges of shadows should be (smoother curving form = softer, sharper edged form =harder), adding ambient occlusion, ambient lighting and reflected light. You can get pretty far just by using the basic rule of thumb shading ball. Color is harder. I was absolutely retarded and basically incapable of coloring at all, skin especially, until I saw Marco Bucci's video on ambient light color, and after learning about the concepts of local and perceived color it finally clicked for me and fixed the brain bug preventing me from into color. I'm definitely not good at it by any means, but I am at least capable of understanding and working with it when I was totally incapable before.
