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The past six months of experimentation and study for me to find a way to add good lighting quickly and uniformly has lead me to this so here's this one. There's many many ways to do and handle lighting in your pieces but this method with these particular settings are one of my favorite ones that I was able to stumble upon. I would still like to make a video covering a secondary method that I found works best for hotspots and colored lighting but yeah, I'm still not in a place where I have the free time to focus on a video recording and editing since my ginger boy is still healing. I was able to chip away at this slowly while he slept next to me though : 3

I'm going to do a bit a rambling now so if you're not interested you can stop reading at this point. This method actually failed for me many times during these last six months. Finding a setup that uniformly worked across light tones without burning them out to white and dark tones without burning them out to black was a challenge in itself. It wasn't until a million attempts later and adjustments that I got it to work. Having any lighting added to the base would mess it up. Using the mask to erase the shadow without adding light would be too dull. Having the contrast too high on the light mask would burn out and oversaturate the form shadow areas that were in light. There was a lot that I had to tweak and reapproach from different angles to finally find the best match for. And failing so much so often before getting there was very frustrating and discouraging lol. Anyway, that's all. I'm happy that the struggle with this is over and that I did fix what needed to be fixed so it could be a good method to work with for others and myself. : )
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Description
The past six months of experimentation and study for me to find a way to add good lighting quickly and uniformly has lead me to this so here's this one. There's many many ways to do and handle lighting in your pieces but this method with these particular settings are one of my favorite ones that I was able to stumble upon. I would still like to make a video covering a secondary method that I found works best for hotspots and colored lighting but yeah, I'm still not in a place where I have the free time to focus on a video recording and editing since my ginger boy is still healing. I was able to chip away at this slowly while he slept next to me though : 3

I'm going to do a bit a rambling now so if you're not interested you can stop reading at this point. This method actually failed for me many times during these last six months. Finding a setup that uniformly worked across light tones without burning them out to white and dark tones without burning them out to black was a challenge in itself. It wasn't until a million attempts later and adjustments that I got it to work. Having any lighting added to the base would mess it up. Using the mask to erase the shadow without adding light would be too dull. Having the contrast too high on the light mask would burn out and oversaturate the form shadow areas that were in light. There was a lot that I had to tweak and reapproach from different angles to finally find the best match for. And failing so much so often before getting there was very frustrating and discouraging lol. Anyway, that's all. I'm happy that the struggle with this is over and that I did fix what needed to be fixed so it could be a good method to work with for others and myself. : )
If you'd like to help support my art Patreon: www.patreon.com/JaeHaruArt/abo…
If you'd like to follow me elsewhere LinkTree: linktr.ee/jaeharuart