[Flinthawk]

Well, guess I'm reverse engineering things here a bit but I really need it. This is the kinda stuff I shoulda been doing at the beginning but never had someone around to tell me so.

Anyway, I've heard about the infamous white matte cube so I decided I oughta try it out. If anybody can point out any problems they see it'd be greatly appreciated. I just bought some supplies to try some gouache work as well and I'm thinking I might try and replicate this exercise using that as well...could be a good start I suppose.

Well, here it is...be gentle. No wait! Don't be gentle, I came here so people could be brutally honest. So have at it.



-Flinthawk

[Anthony]

First thing: The shadowed side of the cube would be lighter at the top and darker at the bottom.
Second thing: The edge of the far shadow nearest us is at an odd angle. Nice start. You could probably find the old matte cube thread/

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-Anthony
Carpe Carpem

[Blitz]

Hey man
Whats up
I like those alot.
Anthony gave you some good advice. I realy camt say much due to me not knowing much about light at this point.
Keep it up man.

Oh and Ill send you some of those links to my pics. Sorry, Iv been buisy and compleatly forgot,

Seeyas around Flint

Blitz

[Flinthawk]

Here's a quick update making some corrections that you mentioned, Anthony. There was a reason I made the upper part of the shadowed side darker though...my logic could be off, I'm sure. I read somewhere that we perceive the shadowed edge around a corner to get darker just before we turn the corner of the object to the lighted side. I was thinking that making that top edge just a bit darker would give a greater sense of there being an edge there. Dunno if I'm right or wrong on that or if I'm just not implementing that idea correctly but I corrected it anyway.

[edit] Ah HA, I think I found what I did wrong on the shadows, gimmie a minute to correct I thought I was forgetting something...ok, here's a correction, boy was I way off. This should be better but I think I should still go back in and airbrush it in (instead of Paintbrush) and make it look cleaner. At least it seems I'm getting something outta this. I'll have to try a few more.

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Hey Blitz, was wondering when you were gunna get some links to me No worries man, I know I get side tracked a bunch and forget stuff.

-Flinthawk



[This message has been edited by Flinthawk (edited April 08, 2001).]