繪製高度逼真的蠟燭的秘密 - 遊戲規則改變者的提示和技巧

Hey my friends, welcome back. As you can see, in today's video, I'm going to show you the secrets of how to paint a realistic fire-slash-candle. So this is the pre-sketch, as you can see, and really very important is that you kind of delete the pencil marks, at least on the very bright parts, otherwise the color will not cover enough the black lines. So really, yeah, delete those lines as best as possible. And then we grab a set of brushes, as you can see here, soft ones, the main thing, size and shapes, up to you, what you prefer. And then we, yeah, kind of gonna use these five colors here, titanium white, lemon yellow, raw sienna, cad red and lamp black to kind of mix a very simple palette, as you can see here. Therefore, speed it up, more or less, just getting darker. And then I, yeah, oil out the painting surface, as you can see here, to prevent the color from, yeah, getting sucked into this HDF plate. And then we start with the brightest area, the flame itself. You see, it's a hint of a yellow to it on the lower end, but in the upper end we have just, yeah, nearly pure and raw titanium white. Yeah, this object kind of needs to be, yeah, really brighter than the rest. You see, I'm mixing the colors where I'm going, and I'm then kind of, yeah, yellowing out the lower end of the flame, around the wick, as you can see here. And this little bit here is still part of the flame. And then we go darker. Remember, the rest, the painting needs to be darker than the flame. Therefore, I'm, yeah, kind of mixing where I'm going, and I have a little darker yellowish color here now, here, to kind of, yeah, show the viewer the flame and the, yeah, part of the candle itself that we have behind the flame, more or less. The wick itself is not black, it's, yeah, a bit reddish and a bit, yeah, yeah, has some extensions to it. As you can see here. And, yeah, the brightest part is kind of glowing, as you can see here, the center part of it. And I'm applying the rest of color here, this area. Oh, and by the way, this video here is available as a full-time, real-time tutorial on my Patreon, over four hours of pure, in-detail painting. Make sure to check it out, link is somewhere down below here. As you see, I'm kind of slowly building up the volume of this candle here. Sorry, got a bit of a cold going on. And we, yeah, the more we, yeah, kind of step away from the fire, the more the areas are not lit by the fire itself, the darker and the more reddish they need to become. And, yeah, it's quite a tedious, yeah, process, kind of, to, yeah, kind of slowly build up those areas. This here, star colors, kind of a window that I'm going to poke into the wick, into the candle itself. And we have a very dark black background, and therefore, but the area around the fire itself is, yeah, a bit more reddish. That's why I apply here now. I'm also mixing colors while I'm going to get darker, to get this reddish color to kind of blend into the very dark color that we have in the back. Without this, the candle fire would look off and run wrong, just not right. It needs to have this kind of a shiny, yeah, area around it. This, yeah, you need to put it in to make it look just realistic. And here I'm going to poke another hole into the candle, this area here. And also note that this color here is now darker. It's now more towards the color that we're going to use later on. This, yeah, nearly kind of blackish color, with a hint of red to it, more or less. And we also, yeah, add some more highlights to the areas that we, yeah, worked on before. They are still wet, keep this in mind. And to be able to do this, you need to keep the color very thin. I mean, of course you need to cover the white of the canvas, but don't apply a huge blob of color. Very important. A bit further down the road, we have the outer part. And you see I'm getting, yeah, slightly darker. And colder as well. It's basically the outer part of the candle, more or less. See, it requires this lighter upper part color. I'm getting darker, a tiny bit, on this part that follows. And I'm also trying to build up this bubbliness, this roundness. Adjust this red color. Slight red color is not enough. You need to really also build up the volume on these areas. Also want to have those, yeah, little highlights. Those little things that are lit by the fire itself. Same goes for this area here. Basically just putting them on, roughly, and then blending them in, kind of, you know. So we have a very soft, nice transition between those areas. Yeah, and you see now here how I'm building up the candle itself. We have this, yeah, kind of structure showing through. On the upper part, the left side here, as you can see here. Those fine lines, and I try to repeat them on this area as well. So I put the color in, then grab a larger brush and start to fine blend. But I'm trying to also use the hair of the brush to show the structure of the candle. It's a process that took quite a while to kind of fine blend. I think it came out really nice. This pulled structure from the candle, more or less. These fine lines, more or less. Then comes the satisfying moment when we apply this very dark, it's not pure, dark, see, palette here. Still containing some red. Yeah, with this color we kind of build up the outer line of the candle. And also forget, don't forget to kind of build up the volume again. You see I'm kind of blending into the very dark color we applied just now. To make this candle bubbly, to make it look 3D. And this is kind of a very small detail here. But it's needed to make this thing really, I mean no painting is perfect. But I'm trying to do it as best as possible, kind of. This next candle here, it's not as detailed, not as detailed painted as the one before. And the edges are also a bit more blended. With this simple effect you achieve kind of a depth to this whole thing. I'm kind of pushing the candle in the back, more to the back, you know. So that we have a really trompe l'oeil 3D effect coming in. I really think it's pretty clearly visible now, already here in this stage here. Less details, a bit more blurry edges. And this thing really kind of starts to look realistic. I then decided to put in some more candles in the back. Kind of freestyle, without any reference. But again, just follow the base idea of the light coming in. Therefore we need to have this shadow here now, a very dark one. Also kind of adding in those blue colors here from the candle that just died, kind of. Then I'm starting to build up, kind of really put the color into the still wet background. To paint the just died, faded out candle, more or less. Moving the brush around. You will see it in our next scene a bit better. I also add some more of this. Another dying candle thing here. Just blend the color into the still wet background. It's a very fine, pointy brush. Try to be random, try to... If you don't know how this looks... Get some reference, for example on pixels.com It needs to have this edginess, kind of. And it also needs to fade out into the color we applied before. This dark one, you know. Bit better in detail. Basically starting to put in the bluish, white-ish color. Really twist and wiggle the brush around. It took 5 seconds and we have now a realistic looking candle painting. So that's about it for today. Make sure you hit that subscribe button, that like button. See you next time. Bye!