Thursday 15 September 2011

The importance of value / tone & observation....

Whoops!  My promise to post more regularly seems to have gone by the by....Sorry will try to do better next time...

Have been waging a war in my classes against the tonally or value challenged & have been TRYING to get all participants to use a grey scale to help them to see that often values are darker or lighter than we think or perceive. I came across this clip in my travels on the web & think it illustrates beautifully the point I have been trying to make:

Never judge value or tone in isolation , it must be related to those values around it. What appears light in one area can be dark in another.
In this clip the light square in shadow only appears light because the values around it are darker....