All language subtitles for 011 Value Fundamentals In Characters.en

In this lecture we're gonna be talking about values and how they apply to your character designs so

value is just basically the lightness or the darkness of either a color.

Or it can just be a black and white value.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna learn about values by first drawing a value scale.

So let's go ahead and let's do this.

So what we want for to draw value scales we want a straight edge.

So I'm using a ruler but you don't have to use a ruler.

It can be the edge of a book.

Anything with a straight edge.

So let's just go ahead and let's draw our straight edge.

So I'm just gonna center my paper just make it nice and neat and then I'll just go ahead.

I'm gonna draw from two inches across to 10 inches but you don't have to I'm just doing that because

I'm going to measure it out but there is no need for this to be perfect or measured out or anything

like that.

I'm gonna go ahead I'm drawing on the bottom side so far using a book or something I just move the book

over and draw two lines like that.

And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to measure out one inch so you can have

multiple rectangular shapes that you can fill different values in to create your value scale and the

amount isn't super important.

So if you wanted to you could just do five.

You can do the amount I'm doing which I believe is seven.

It's up to you.

But go ahead and just mark out some lines or you can just freehand it.

So for example I can just go ahead freehand these and if I didn't mark these out I could just eyeball

where those lines are but basically what you want is you just want a long rectangle and then you want

to subdivide that into separate rectangular compartments.

And what we're gonna do is we're gonna fill each one of these in with a value starting from darkest

to lightest and we're gonna talk about how it applies for a character design.

So let's go ahead and let's start by adding in our darkest value over here.

So what we want to do is we just want to push really hard with our pencil just just hard enough that

we don't break our pencil but we still want to be putting the maximum maximum amount of pressure on

our pencil and we want to get this nice opaque look.

All right great.

So there we go.

So we have our darkest value now.

Now real quick before we move on.

I just want to talk about the labeling on pencils so you don't have to use different graphical drawing

pencils if you want you can just use one single pencil and you can just push harder for your dark values

and lighter for your lighter values.

But if you want to if you have a drawing pencil set you'll notice that they are marked with a number

and then a B or it might have an H on it and then a number.

And what this is is the B stands for blackness.

So if there is a B on it that means it's gonna be on the darker side of the value spectrum.

And if it has an H on it that stands for hardness because the harder the lead the lighter your value

is going to be.

So B is for darker values and H is for lighter values.

And then the number paired with it the higher that number the darker it will be.

So if this were a Six B for example it would be the darkest value.

And then you'll also see that there might you might have a pencil on your set that has a B and an H

together.

That's gonna be right in the center of your value spectrum.

And so what we can do is we can use these different types of pencils to help us create the values we're

looking for.

It just makes it a little bit easier.

And it also allows us to kind of get darker values.

So I use a four B down here on this end.

So there is a darker value.

And then what I'll do is I'll switch over to another pencil so right here I switch over to an HB pencil

and I'll use that to create my middle values and then I'll use a really light pencils so a 5 h which

is one of the lightest pencils you can get and I'll use it on this end.

But like I said you don't have to use pencils like this if you want you can.

Or if you have him you can but you can also just use one single pencil just to create a value spectrum.

So let's go ahead and let's continue.

So next what I want to do is I want to take my HB pencil so my mid tone pencil and let's see these two

right here are basically in my middle so what I'll do is I'm just going to

lightly shade this and I'm not putting full pressure on this just something like that

and using the same pencil I'll move over next to it and I'll shade in a little bit of a lighter value

just like that then we can go onto our next lightest values which are going to be my five H pencil and

I can just slightly

shade this in.

And as you can see even on giving it quite a bit of pressure still doesn't appear to be that dark.

Then I just want to push even lighter on this one.

And as you can see it fades into a white maybe I can darken this one a little bit more

and I want to go back to my HB pencil and I'm just going to darken this in a little bit more as well.

So now as you can see these two look very similar.

So what I need to do is I need to darken this one even further.

And then I can switch back to my darker pencil which is a a for B and I can start transitioning from

this darker value to this lighter value.

So I'm gonna go ahead and put a darker value right here

and I'll make the next one even darker.

Perfect.

I'll use the same pencil I'll just darken this middle one a little bit more.

All right.

Great.

So as you can see basically the idea is to start with a darker value.

And each box is gonna get slightly wider progressively all the way until it gets to the White.

So it will go from black all the way to white and every value will be in between.

So here's our value scale now what's the point of a value scale.

Well we want to be able to break down the different values and kind of compartmentalize them in our

own head.

So when we're looking at the value scale we can apply this to our highlights and shadows for example.

So our mid tones like the word implies are gonna come from the middle of our spectrum.

So our mid tones are going to be somewhere in there.

This is gonna have to do with how bright your light source is as well as what value the actual object

is that's being lit.

So if you have a black ball for example being lit the mid tones might be a little bit darker.

And if it's a white object that's being like the mid tones might be a little bit lighter.

And if you're also a bright light source then your midterms might be brighter and if you have a darker

light source your mid tones might be darker.

So basically depending on those two things that's going to determine where you're mid tones come from.

Then we have our core shadows which are going to come out of that area

and then we have her highlights and sometimes our highlights can be white.

But generally your highlights are actually going to be kind of a very light gray

and then are completely white.

No values whatsoever.

This is going to tend to be things like reflections

come on over here.

This black part we have ambient occlusion

All right.

So that is how our spectrum is kind of broken up into different sections and applied to our drawings.

So it's important that when you are adding highlights and shadows that you think about this you think

about how light or how dark your mid tones your highlights and your core shadows are going to be as

well as your ambient and your reflections.

All right now let's go ahead and jump into Photoshop and I'm just going to show you one more thing.

All right so here we have a two squares one is black and one is gray and they both have a gray circle

on them they're on a white background.

So we only have values here.

We don't have any colors to confuse us.

It's just black and white values and what we want to talk to you about is values relativity.

So when you're dealing with values the values that are next to other values are going to change the

way they look.

And this is the idea of relativity.

So depend on what's next to it.

That's going to change how you view it.

So what I mean by this.

Well looking at this you might think that this gray circle right here is the same or a different color

than this circle right here.

But in actuality they are the same value.

And the reason why they look different is because one isn't on a darker background and the other one

is on a lighter background.

So if you don't believe me let me prove it to you really quick so I can go ahead and take my Eyedropper

tool and this is just a tool that will select that value right there.

So I can paint with it now and you can see if I paint in there it paints the same color or the same

value there's no difference.

And you'll see if I come over here I'm I haven't switched the color or anything.

So same color I come over here and I paint and you can see that it's still the same value but they look

different this one obviously looks darker than that one.

So this is something to take note of.

Sometimes when you see something and it looks like white on black it's actually a light gray on black.

And sometimes when you see something that looks like a light gray on black it's actually not black it's

actually a dark gray.

But it's not actually black.

So it's important to understand how the different the values that go right up next to each other so

basically the contrast is going to change the way values look.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

So keep this in mind maybe look for some photographs that you can find online and see if you can identify

this going on in there.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next one.