All language subtitles for 06. Brightness

Hello, everyone. Thank you for watching Section 2.

Now, I'd like to do a brief review.

In the last lecture, we talked about lines.

We learned how the viewer's gaze is guided by the lines on the screen.

Next, I think we learned that we can use all elements of a drawing to guide the viewer's gaze.

Next, we learned that the size of the person and how they are placed change the main character on the screen.

We also learned that the person's face and gaze strongly attract our attention.

In this lecture, I'd like to talk about the fourth element, brightness.

I will explain how to control the viewer's gaze using the balance of brightness and darkness.

Let's get started.

Brightness and darkness are compositional elements.

Like the screen, depth, and lines, they play an important role in the composition of a picture.

There is an atmosphere in a picture, and the main element that creates this atmosphere is the brightness of the whole picture.

This is called the key.

Now, I'd like to explain while looking at the example.

Please take a look at this illustration.

This is Azur Lane's 2nd anniversary illustration.

For example, if you draw a happy time with your friends or a birthday party, you can draw it with a bright brightness, high key.

In the case of this illustration, I wanted to make you feel the hope for the future, so I used a high key.

And next.

Next is this illustration. It's an illustration of a ruined school.

Conversely, if you draw a sad or desperate scene, you can draw it with a dark brightness or a low key.

In this illustration, it's a scene where you lose your friends in a fierce battle and you're wrapped in a sense of loss, so I used a low key like this.

Please take a look at the next illustration.

This is a work of the Midnight School Illustration Contest.

In this illustration, if you draw a fierce battle scene or a powerful scene, you can draw a maid with a strong contrast like white and black.

It's an illustration of a fierce battle scene with a powerful enemy, so I tried to make it more powerful by increasing the contrast.

In this way, I think a maid should be used in a single illustration.

Especially if you're trying to create an atmosphere with a maid.

If you draw a maid with a completely different dark tone from the overall key in a picture of a fun moment with a friend,

Conversely, if you add a person with a meaningless, bright, and fun tone in a desperate, dark picture, the atmosphere of the picture will be broken or weakened.

The well-considered line arrangement can also focus the line of sight on the focus of the work, as well as the fierce contrast of the maid.

Now, I'd like to actually draw it and explain it.

First, I'll draw a frame.

Let's say there's another person.

Let's say this person is in a snowy mountain.

The snowy mountain is white, and there's a black person.

If you place the black and white contrasting maids next to each other, you can make them stand out more.

For example, there's a black person in a white background, and it stands out a lot.

Let's make this black background black like coal, not snow.

Then the person doesn't stand out at all.

This effect is also useful when you want to focus the viewer's attention.

I used the shortcut key to bring up the color saturation and brightness.

If you make the person massive, you can see that it stands out in the black background.

It's a good idea to use this kind of contrast.

Now, let's look at the next example.

This is an official fan art illustration of Hal Salhi's First One Man Live.

I talked about it a little bit at the beginning, but let's take a closer look.

I'll make it monochrome so that you can see the difference in brightness.

If you remove all the saturation, it becomes monochrome.

The character is designed in a dark tone, and if you put it in a dark background, it will blend in with the background.

So I put a spotlight on it from above, and I focused my attention on the face of the character in the center of this picture.

I put a spotlight on it, and I focused my attention on the face of the character in the center of this picture.

First of all, I focused my attention on the character's eyes.

Next, I focused my attention on the character's hair, which is high in brightness.

And there's a paper blizzard that emphasizes the contrast with the background.

I focused my attention in this direction.

And by layering a low-light braided braid around the arm,

I think the contrast between the brightness around the arm and the darkness of the braided braid will make the line of sight flow like this.

In general, the basic brightness composition of most pictures is related to one of these.

Brightness vs. Darkness

Brightness vs. Darkness

Brightness vs. Darkness and Half-Tone

Half-Tone is the middle between black and white.

And Half-Tone vs. Brightness and Darkness

These patterns may seem obvious at first glance,

but the texture is hidden in the expression, and they are formed in a complicated way that is difficult to distinguish between light and dark.

It's a subtle way of appearing.

But even in that case, if you look at the screen with your eyes narrowed,

you can see that the basic brightness pattern is hidden in the diversity of the screen, and that's what's putting together the composition.

From the point of view of brightness, the picture that cannot be reduced to a large and simple texture can look confusing.

To avoid confusion, I think it's a good idea to decide the brightness of the main part of the screen in advance.

Now, let's take a quick look at the four reduction patterns I've given you.

Please take a look here.

There are a make-up stand and a person.

First of all, the pattern using Dark and Half-Tone against a bright background.

The contrast between the make-up stand and the background is the strongest, so I think the make-up stand stands out more than the person.

Next is No. 2.

This is a pattern of Dark and Half-Tone.

This is also a big black make-up stand, but the contrast between the background and the person is strong, so the make-up stand stands out.

Next is No. 3.

This is a pattern of Dark and Light against Half-Tone.

Since the person is drawn brightly, the contrast between the person and the background becomes the strongest, and the person becomes the center of attention.

And No. 4.

This is a simple pattern of Light and Dark against Dark.

The make-up stand and the person are drawn in the same tone, so I think these two are combined into one silhouette and have a different effect than before.

When you create various objects on the screen, you need to consider the brightness of the object.

The contrast between the make-up stand and the background will clearly create the cloud of attention.

Carding the brightest and darkest shapes in the screen is very powerful and creates contrast that catches eye.

If you combine similar modes, it becomes less conspicuous.

This is also an effect that can be used for objects that you don't want to stand out like mobs.

Now, I would like to go back to the example.

Please look at this illustration again.

I drew a battle between two people, but I wanted the center of the screen to be a white-clothed character.

So, I tried to make the contrast stronger with the dark background.

And the red-haired character is drawn while suppressing the contrast in the screen as the next important element.

And I would like you to look at the next illustration.

This is an illustration of the school.

I think the contrast between the person in the backlight and the person in the dark is conspicuous and emphasizes the presence in the screen.

And if you draw a picture, there is a 4-step base of lightness, which is called dilution.

Please look at this.

First of all, the middle key is a pattern that does not use extreme lightness.

And the second lightness, the high key, is a pattern in which the overall brightness is very bright.

Next, the third dark key, the low key, is a pattern in which the overall brightness is very dark.

And finally, the fourth, the all-step brightness.

It is a pattern using all-step brightness from white to black.

And the figure shown in each rectangle shows the range of brightness used.

The interrelationship of brightness is consistent in any pattern.

For example, in any pattern, the wings are the brightest and the clothes are the darkest.

Lightness is also a deep element, but let's try to grasp the basics of the four elements explained in this section from a simple form and arrangement.

I think you'll be able to combine the four elements and draw various pictures while trying out various patterns.

That's it for section 2.

Next time, I'll explain section 3, drawing.

Thank you very much for watching until the end again this time.

See you next time.