Reply To: The problem with painting tutorials

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My complaint was against tutorials in general however I watched both the videos you linked and the monochrome one doesn’t explain light at all. Romain mentions it initially about having a low flat light but then forgets and paintsvthe mini completely ignoring the light source. Why is he placing highlights where he does? We’ll never know.

The face one is better in that it tells us where the shadows will be and where the highlights will be before he paints them, but again it’s a quick mention with no explanation why or how. Did anyone notice that he highlighted the top of the head differently to the rest of the face? He just did it, he didn’t explain why or even that he was going to he just said now I’ll highlight the head.

There was no mention at all that by placing lights in certain areas you can change how a face looks. No mention of different shapes reflecting light differently (why incidently the head was highlighted differently) it was slightly more advanced than the base, shade, highlight tutorial but only just. This is more colour than light but there should have been a good explanation of the 3 zones of a face, amongst other things.

Again this is just my opinion but there needs to be more how and why in all painting tutorials rather than just copy me.