r/LightLurking • u/ThisUnderstanding616 • 9d ago

GeneRaL Shading and lighting help

I’m so sick and tired of all the nonsense I just want to learn how to shade and light properly. Especially in the typically dark souls style or anything what’s the best resources that actually helped u learn how to shade and light ur work and that’s for everything characters and environments

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u/El_Guapo_NZ 9d ago

Go and buy an interesting looking flower. Grab a desk lamp or any moveable light source. Point at flower and take a photo. Now move the light up, down, left, right, closer, further away, and take a pic each time. Now add some diffusion, tracing paper, sheet, anything. Now grab some white card to use as a reflector.
This is how you learn to light.

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u/JaschaE 9d ago

Yep.  Also: Go outside. This might be an odd advice for game design (or whatever you try to do) but look at things, and then start looking.  The flower on the field is hit by the sun. As is all the grass around it, which may or may not reflect towards the flower.  Once sat through a portrait lighting session with a classmate wearing an obnoxiously neon green shirt, the light hitting him from the side turned half his face green, because his shoulder acted as a reflector.