Playfull Shadows and Tracing

week 4
sem 1
"Shadows"

Shadows add depth to a hand drawn image giving a "real" effect on your work. We practised on shadows using the same pear we did the week before but this time, we'll add a little evil touch to it.



I used the same methods as before, by trcing out the pear shape and shadows but i added another feature. I aslo traced out the skull but the eyes area separate from the jaw so later i can give an open mouth effect.


I looked for an image of a skull which has an angle  to add perspective to the pear and with shadows, add depth. The colours i used dont resemble anything because the main idea is to obtain right shadow contrast in this situation.

There we go,  i flipped my pear around to give the skull more room, i angled the jaw slightly to show it opening up. different shades of yellow and orange were used here to cast multiple shadows. See how this gives a realisitc feel and depth, comic art at most.

Next we were given this image, the same concept was used whereby i would first make the opacity of the image less then trace out the man on the right. Adobe ilustrator has pre installed patterns which can be used for the fill which can be seen later. shadows can be put the same way, draw a line across the area in between where the shadow should be and the light colour. After selecting all the areas, i divided them and ungrouped them allowing me to select which areas i want darker and which i would want lighter.

TADA, my sweet bald devil. i added horns and a tail using the pen tool to draw out curves and shape tool to get the arrow. In this case, the orange coloured areas on the body are the shadows and the pattern i used was fish scales because of the colour resemblance.