I then wanted to do an exercise that looks at how light can form in the landscape and so gathered together some images from my friend Kadey Hardy who is a photographer along with some from Google images so that I could create some really nice pieces of digital art from them. This exercise was really helpful and I tried to complete each piece in less than an hour to capture just the best details of the picture.
Image 1
Below is an image of a pier that goes out onto the water underneath a beautiful sunset. The colours in this piece are what initially attracted me to draw this in the first place as it is beautiful. The yellowy orange that goes to pink and then purple suggests that it has just gone past sunset into dusk which is the reason for these bold colour slashes. I also love how blocked out the pier is and there is only minimal shadows and highlights.
The next piece looks at candles that have been lit. This is one that I'm not too happy with. I believe that the flame, shape and colours of the fire have been captured well but the overall look doesn't look as good as the others. They do not look as real as they should and the light coming off them isn't quite right.
This is probably one of my favourite ones, and I am very happy with how it turned out in the end. I have tried to first capture the small light in the background in the upper left hand corner and then looked at how it would reflect onto the Christmas bauble on the side. There were also a number of lights on the tree so there are some small reflections on their as well along with a large light next to it which is the frosty white shadow across the right hand side. Overall this one works very well and I have extremely proud of the result.
Image 4
The next one is an piece that shows sunlight coming through the clouds. This one I feel could have been draw better and some of the sun's rays are coming in on a slight angle when they should have been straight but I feel that it shows what I wanted to show. I aimed to achieve the light coming through the clouds but also you are able to see that the sun is behind just by looking at the top of the piece as there is bright white light trying to get through which I think works very well.
Image 5
With this next one I tried to capture a sunny day with a more overcast feel to it so I picked an image to draw that had an element of sunlight in but also with cloud which meant that you only really got one shadow which is coming from the straw bale. The shadow does look okay but the whole scene itself as the sun is behind the camera isn't very interesting and could do with more in the shot.
Image 6
I really like the image and you can tell that the picture was taken around dusk due to the really nice purply colours that come from the sky off the clouds that are then reflected into the water. Although I really like this scene the lighting is very overcast and there isn't too much light. The sun has actually gone down past the bottom mountain as you can see it is very light around the top of them so we only get a faint shadow around the bottom of the rocks in the foreground which is something that works really well.
Image 7
This again is a really beautiful scene and shows a lighthouse lighting up the clouds on the cliff. Its a beautifully composed scene and everything in is the perfect place. The time of day again is late dusk as you can see the purple tones coming through the clouds but also you can still see the sunlight coming through right at the bottom of the skyline and bringing that really nice pink colour through. I love the way the light from the lighthouse hits the clouds and lights up part of them and it creates a really nice effect.
Image 8
This was a very quick study of colours of leaves against a sun. With this image I mainly wanted to focus on the colours instead of the lighting in this image as there wasn't many shadows only more detail on the leaves like the veins, so I decided to just stick with block colour to create this effect. The range of leaves goes from white-yellow to very dark green as they get further away from the direct source of light creating a really diverse range of colours which is nice.
Image 9
this was quite an unusual one, and I don't think it turned out to be too exciting which is what I thought would happen in the end. The overall look to it is great and I really love the picture of the overcast day and you can see the dips in the mountains which show the shadows coming from the sun, but overall this is not one of my favourite pieces.
Image 10
This is ones of my favourites to finish it off, and it was one of the quickest to do as well. It's a beautiful skyline that is silhouetted out as the sun sets behind the buildings and the amber, orange and brown tones are beautifully cast across the sky and then onto the water in the fore ground. It looks great and although this is a very quick version of this image I really like it as it shows all of the colours that are splashed across the sky and then projected into the water.
I really enjoyed doing this exercise and you can really appreciate how much colour and light are actually in an environment at one time and its fantastic. It was really fun and helpful to produce these quick painting to capture the different aspects of these photographs and I know that it will definitely help when it comes to creating a big environment.
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