Magic white dots living Tutorial

[Maru]

Yup after experiment with object "Scarecrow" i decide to present effect of such in more sciene version
so it will Grow thats why living tutorial - i will add other tips about placment - how and where on on different structures and curves / angels

so lests start :
a circle / half circle - like Toha knee pads or gun parts

all trick with white dots sugest a zenithal light dropping from abowe and creating blicks on surfaces - so plaicing it maind that we will symulate light from above - not from right or left -- (in case of side light blicks need to be moved accoerdingly to act with light )

so lets look at this marvelous gold hair ring :

i post this photo as example - blicks are actualy visible (and come stright from above) and it is easy accordingly to that to place white dots in correct places

The best i can come up with is on the very upper most edges/corners... But i tend to get a bit carried away

is not that - look blicks apear to at very bottom (toha knee pad lower circle ) and thats thing to rymember - not only very upper parts but very bottom part (if exposed to light)

so
let me show some of more paint like example :


thats the placment of "white dots" on circles

but something wrong with rightmost - beside i cut them badly
yes - you don't c shadow thats why it looks derpy
so lets post that again

now you c that if you paint a blick on the top - don't forget shadow under it (with 3D object shadows are natural under them )

But ye it loooks so out of scale and not natural - well thous examples show placment not the scale of work - so lets c this in more proper scale

better .. but let me remove white dots



damn flat - only 1 looking better is The one with shadow under neath

ok thats for now
Questions ?
Suggestions?

[Crushar]

Fooking brilliant!
I love this. It sounds so simple. But as As Scarecrow said, how do you keeping from going "overboard?"

I mean this seems so straight forward and simple, but I to see myself falling into the trap of going "overboard" with the white dots.

Thanks for this tutorial! I am sure it will help us all Maru!

[Maru]

But as As Scarecrow said, how do you keeping from going "overboard?"

ther is actualy no way you may go over board - only effect of doing so will be creation of Gem instead of armor plates
- you may only go bad with placment not the amount - wrong placment = wrong light effect

and about "to much" - B/W chellenge is all about to much - black vs white - thats highest contrast you may get

look at thous :

there is gazilios white dots on black and a lot of white lines

ok back to the topic - squares



left most - well in this scale it looks bad - if he is perfectly flat and vertical - ther will be no reflection on lower parts - but if it like on Toha backpack - yes light will bounce there
middle 1 - well it will look mostly like that as corners will create not blicks but lines like on rightmost - blicks will pop up on 3D items with actual standing on corners not of flat painting

white bacground + shadows


and "real scale"





so actualy the placment of dots is lerned by B/W chellenge

[kidterminal]

This is fantastic this really shows how to do this. I'm sorry you had to remove your hair ring to make this tutorial. Sacrificing your hair style yo help us paint better is true friendship.

[Maru]

ok so what next to explain - ?
a dot placment in more complicated shapes ??
or in set of shapes
or other idea ?

[samurai]

i´d like to see more complicated shapes explained. like shoulder pads and breast plates, especially female ones

[Maru]

i´d like to see more complicated shapes explained. like shoulder pads and breast plates, especially female ones

so you mean 'i would like tutorials bout domes"
em i right ?

[kidterminal]

Yes you could call them that.

[Maru]

thats actualy basicshape not advenced one but i mey do a tut ..

but in meantime - just look at spoon - under lamp - it is exact same

[Maru]

ow took ma a while to find a spoon photo a correct spoon photo .. a spoon photo not spooning ... not MLP fanarts or other "creative" spoon interpretacions

so domes - best example of in game Domes are actualy spoons they look like f male chest plates and like shoulderpads

thats why it should be took as refere - all posses spoon in ther house so you may check by your selve weher it reflect light and pain ther whitre dots


by ~voeux-de-leslie

cool photo (it not include tits , dongs , horse on horse action - non of thous just spoon )
as you mey c blick of light is on upper part just before bend
- thats mean - you dont paint nipples with blicks - they are higher on a bend surface not on a tip

similar n this photo
http://tpenttil.deviantart.com/art/Spoo ... -119755591

As you may see blick is above half upper part
and another is on very top of it - actualy bright line
- thats mean you highlihly upper edge with white line and a dot of white just above half asa blick on bended sutface - not on a tip of that bend - things looks different on spheres but they are just even

so it would be cool if i actualy crate a shape explantion like before with circles / rings and others - will add

hope i helped a bit

[kidterminal]

It is helpful and the use your own spoon idea is clever.

[Maru]

ok quick shech over



as you c one of them is outer side of Spoon other inner side (for thous that dont c this - left is outer side "the bouble one ")
as you c outer side will get highlight on top when inner side on bottom (if you look from ther side not from the top )

a single dot


now you c i don't put ther a round dot it is rather a eliptic shape - it is not sphere so the reflection will be affected by this
as you c non of them is at the middle of the shape - "outer spoon" is above bend and inner is just right sharp bendding thats make a spoon a spoon
so as you may see - at Toha female brestplates - blicks would be above "nipple placments" iven if 'nipple spot" is the moust exposed one - it is not reflecting light from above - it is braking point - reflection is erlier


2 dots

to increse 3d effect
the addicional blick emulate reflection from the suroundings like floor or ground (thous things reflect naturaly zenital light and bounce it back not so powerful like direct - but always

leftmous "spoon" will not get light from zenital light on her bottom - but thats the spot wich will reflect bounced back light from sourondings - yet stays much darker or iven jet black (depending on material) - it is "under boobs light"
when rightmous willget this souroundings light on inner side up high - but not on top - just near it


ok hope this helps