![]() ![]() Light is a type of energy created by the emission of photons within the electromagnetic spectrum. To understand how to render light and shadow in art we must grasp the concept of what light is and how it behaves. Since this is the first, let’s start digging into to the science of light and shadow in art, shall we? The Science-What is Light? I hope you will hang in there with me as I break down the technical bits (that’s the patience part), I hope the examples and information I share help your practice, and that you’ll find it useful enough to look forward to the future posts in this series. If I get something wrong, please let me know in the comments and I will do my best to make corrections. I endeavor to be an expert artist, not physicist ?, but I do try to be as accurate and as clear as possible. The understanding we gain for our art is totally worth it, and we need three things for sure: 1) Patience, 2) Plenty of visual examples, and 3) More than one post to go through the massive amounts of information.įor any of you who are much better scientists than I, please forgive any inaccuracies in my scientific understanding or explanation. That was my not-so-subtle warning that The Fundamentals of Light–light and shadow in art– gets quite technical. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that different aspects of light behavior and properties come under several different categories of Physics that are each quite involved areas all their own. It is difficult not to get philosophical here because what we are really doing when we render light and shadow in art is re-creating the properties and behaviors of light in a 2D space-and those behaviors and properties encompass several sub-branches of modern Physics, including: Quantum Physics, Modern Optics, Geometric Optics, and Physical Optics. ![]() I know I haven’t, even when I’m in the middle of rendering, and I love light and shadow in art!Īs I continue to dig into what light and shadow in art really is, I am awestruck and so thankful to all the scientists and artists who came before me-the giants upon whose shoulders we stand-because the subject of light and shadow in art is huge, and I am glad they already figured all this stuff out for us ?. I’m not sure many people fully appreciate the nature of what artists attempt to do each time we set out to render light and shadow in art.
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