the point of this picture is to show the warm highlights/cool lowlights technique.
it can be vice versa, but you dont ever want warm highlights and warm lowlights or cool highlights and cool lowlights. it works best with a contrast between the two, although there are exceptions.
this is a more extreme saturated case than is needed, mind you.
say a beginning painter is trying to render something red. their first instinct is just use a saturated deep blood red and shade up to a bright saturated firetruck red. they dont take into account the cool highlights technique, or they wont even use a bouncelight at all, like the blue one here.
most of the time i use a much more desaturated (less pure) blue for such a task.
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Because I'd really like to.
thanks (:
I'm with a lot of beginning colorists that mixing warms and cools can be intimidating. This will help a lot in the mastering of such technique.
Thank you
still pretty...but in a freaking me out because i'm slightly off kind of way.