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Most voted thing on the poll I made (and something I'm fairly proud of as well!) Lol it was when I started this; I'm still gonna do the other two eventually though~
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A huge part of lighting, regardless of wether or not your art is realistic, cartoony, or somehwere in between, is observation. Spend time looking a light - observe how it falls, what colour/s it is, and how it reflects. Creating a feeling of atmospehere/setting is very important when it comes to getting mood in your art, and it's something many artists don't seem to put a lot of time into, save for when they're working on paintings. I do everything on here for basically all of my art - if it doesn't have a background, you can bet I'll still do this and just clip the layers to the character instead. Gradients especially tend to make things look more dynamic.

There are obviously many ways to do the stuff I showed as well - some artists will do it manually. So instead of using a blue multiply layer and a white saturation layer for a dark scene, they'll just take the colour and shift it towards blue and desaturate it. How you want to do this stuff is up to you - but light is full of colour, and shadows are full of light as well (if they had no light in them you'd see absoutley nothing, not a darker area of a distinguishable object). Not everyone likes to use a lot of colour, but even if you want to work in more subtle tones don't just use black and white!

Hopefully this is useful to people, and please let me know if there's something specific you'd like to have more info on!

Description
Most voted thing on the poll I made (and something I'm fairly proud of as well!) Lol it was when I started this; I'm still gonna do the other two eventually though~
--

A huge part of lighting, regardless of wether or not your art is realistic, cartoony, or somehwere in between, is observation. Spend time looking a light - observe how it falls, what colour/s it is, and how it reflects. Creating a feeling of atmospehere/setting is very important when it comes to getting mood in your art, and it's something many artists don't seem to put a lot of time into, save for when they're working on paintings. I do everything on here for basically all of my art - if it doesn't have a background, you can bet I'll still do this and just clip the layers to the character instead. Gradients especially tend to make things look more dynamic.

There are obviously many ways to do the stuff I showed as well - some artists will do it manually. So instead of using a blue multiply layer and a white saturation layer for a dark scene, they'll just take the colour and shift it towards blue and desaturate it. How you want to do this stuff is up to you - but light is full of colour, and shadows are full of light as well (if they had no light in them you'd see absoutley nothing, not a darker area of a distinguishable object). Not everyone likes to use a lot of colour, but even if you want to work in more subtle tones don't just use black and white!

Hopefully this is useful to people, and please let me know if there's something specific you'd like to have more info on!