Castle Paradox

[Newbie_Power]

(Reposting this here as per requested by Fenrir)

I made an interesting discovery today...


(From the left: Blue, Teal, Yellow, Red, and a bat that's obviously doing it wrong).

I originally drew the blue bat on the very left. I soon realized that even though I used brown shading and light grey highlights, I was realizing my brain was still registering it as a blue bat. Seriously, brown shading.

So I thought about this, and began changing colors. Lo and behold, the bat instantly changes how my mind perceives it as a whole when I change that one color. The grey would go with the middle shade color, then the brown would be... Well, I am actually not sure why the brown works (I'm guessing the clashing color gives a bit of extra contrast).

It just goes to show that how you use your color choices can matter a lot.
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[djfenix]

The brown works for shading the blue bat because in reality, that's how it actually is.

When you take a coloured light source (in this case, blue), the projected shadow will be the contrasting colour to the main colour (which would be a dark orange, which really, is brown). With natural sunlight (which is virtually white with a hint of yellow), you could see a slight hue of purple in our shadows.

With that in mind, you could take a look into those bats again. The second (teal shading) almost looks redish, and would work if you had red highlights. The third (yellow) would work with purple highlights, and the fourth (red) would work with green highlights.

[Newbie_Power]

Obviously, I am doing it wrong then. The blue bat is actually made to be blue, not be a brown bat with a blue light source.
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[djfenix]

No, no.. you got it right.

Let's put it this way. In blue lighting, a white object would cast an orange (dark orange = brown, as stated) shadow.

But in retrospect, in white lighting, a blue object would also cast an orange shadow, simply because as the white light reflects off the blue colour, the light would look to be blue, rather than white.

I hope that made sense >_>

[TwinHamster]

It'd make a heck of a lot more sense if you colored in the words instead of bolding them D:

[Newbie_Power]

If I'm understanding correctly, just use the complimentary color?


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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[LeRoy_Leo]