02-27-2011, 10:41 PM
Now it's time to try to think outside the box. Is there some way to let some light fall on the part of the backdrop that can be seen "beyond" the drive-thru? The lightened/muted tone of the distant structure looks like it's working just fine ... except looking under/though the drive-thru teller portico ... it needs a little ambiant light.
But it really looks to me like you've got a pretty good handle on it! The farther away, the lighter, more muted, more grayed out the colors get. Sometimes it helps to put a tiny little bit of very pale purple in the paint ... it helps things recede. Really, Gary, it's beginning to look stellar! I like it! Not too much "doodled detail," rather just "suggestions" ... the eye will fill the detail in. (I remember in freshman year drawing class, they made us tand at arms length for the big newprint pad i=on the easle and hold a stick of chrcoal by the last 3/4" ... there's no "noodled detail" when you approach it that way! Just think like that's what you're doing and let it flow.
And remember, the back drop is just that ... a "supporting cast of characters in the background," those guys in the back of the scene who are just there to make the main characters not be all by themselves on stage ... they're not involved in the dialog between the main characters!
But it really looks to me like you've got a pretty good handle on it! The farther away, the lighter, more muted, more grayed out the colors get. Sometimes it helps to put a tiny little bit of very pale purple in the paint ... it helps things recede. Really, Gary, it's beginning to look stellar! I like it! Not too much "doodled detail," rather just "suggestions" ... the eye will fill the detail in. (I remember in freshman year drawing class, they made us tand at arms length for the big newprint pad i=on the easle and hold a stick of chrcoal by the last 3/4" ... there's no "noodled detail" when you approach it that way! Just think like that's what you're doing and let it flow.
Remember, Alfred Hitchcock never actually showed any violence on the screen in "Psycho" ... he made your eyes and your imagination do all the work for him!
And remember, the back drop is just that ... a "supporting cast of characters in the background," those guys in the back of the scene who are just there to make the main characters not be all by themselves on stage ... they're not involved in the dialog between the main characters!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln