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Here's a quick Value Cheat Sheet I threw up on my patreon with a wip I was working on going over what the point of working with values is, what you're looking for when you're value-checking, and what you're supposed to be doing when you spot areas that need fixed or are 'value-sharing'. Of course, if you have line art you don't have to bother. The line art separates it automatically. There are also composition 'tricks' you can use once you know this. If you want to separate value-sharing areas on the piece you can use different colors at the same values or close to, so they still value-share. There are times in a composition where separating them with value can bring too much attention to them for something like a background area that isn't important and that you WANT to fade so the eyes are focusing on the important parts of the image. That's a trick for color-based compositions though. Just food for thought. Some additional tips with working with values is try to keep in mind that most 'shadow' is only about 50% darker, and most 'form shadow' is only about 20-30%. Try not to overdo it or add a lot of pure black at 100% or pure white at a 100%. Those tend not to exist in real life and if they do, it's in situations where it's reflecting pure light at 100% or in areas with ambient occlusion (areas no light is able to reach) in already very dark scenes! Anyway, good luck with your value studies and hopefully this was helpful o/

Patreon: www.patreon.com/JaeHaruArt?fan…

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Here's a quick Value Cheat Sheet I threw up on my patreon with a wip I was working on going over what the point of working with values is, what you're looking for when you're value-checking, and what you're supposed to be doing when you spot areas that need fixed or are 'value-sharing'. Of course, if you have line art you don't have to bother. The line art separates it automatically. There are also composition 'tricks' you can use once you know this. If you want to separate value-sharing areas on the piece you can use different colors at the same values or close to, so they still value-share. There are times in a composition where separating them with value can bring too much attention to them for something like a background area that isn't important and that you WANT to fade so the eyes are focusing on the important parts of the image. That's a trick for color-based compositions though. Just food for thought. Some additional tips with working with values is try to keep in mind that most 'shadow' is only about 50% darker, and most 'form shadow' is only about 20-30%. Try not to overdo it or add a lot of pure black at 100% or pure white at a 100%. Those tend not to exist in real life and if they do, it's in situations where it's reflecting pure light at 100% or in areas with ambient occlusion (areas no light is able to reach) in already very dark scenes! Anyway, good luck with your value studies and hopefully this was helpful o/

Patreon: www.patreon.com/JaeHaruArt?fan…

Link Tree: linktr.ee/jaeharuart