{"id":10679,"date":"2015-08-30T01:28:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/30\/paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:00:08","slug":"paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/30\/paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10679 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/30\/paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in\/attachment\/10680\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/30\/paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in\/attachment\/10681\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o2_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nl0ykq5x6y1qm72y9o2_1280.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/paracomart.tumblr.com\/post\/113308118403\">paracomart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/10ba911145817b7375fccd4df4b87791\/tumblr_inline_nl0zyz8kze1qkq5rp.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lighting is often underestimated in illustration \u2013 a lot of illustrators and beginning artists look at it as a decorative element, or as purely a tool used to showcase the form. A lot of beginning artists are afraid of shading and of using harsh lights. But even with the lighting mastered, even with perfect rendering and good understanding of form in space an integral element of the light remains missing in their pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look at the samples above: the same character\u2019s head has been used in every thumbnail, and the only thing I have tweaked was the cropping and manner of light used on the features. Every single one of these frames tells a different story and gives off a different vibe simply by using light to <b>focus on the features I want you to focus on<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Read how lighting can be used to enhance <b>character<\/b>, <b>mood<\/b>, and <b>interaction<\/b>\u00a0within your pictures below the cut.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tmblr-truncated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/paracomart.tumblr.com\/post\/113308118403\/lighting-is-often-underestimated-in-illustration\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>paracomart: Lighting is often underestimated in illustration \u2013 a lot of illustrators and beginning artists look at it as a decorative element, or as purely a tool used to showcase the form. A lot of beginning artists are afraid of shading and of using harsh lights. But even with the lighting mastered, even with perfect &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/08\/30\/paracomart-lighting-is-often-underestimated-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,3693],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-oooh-yes-good","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}