Lighting of Character – Redone!

I had to redo my lighting of my character because it just wouldn’t work as an rendition. It would work as an illustration, but that was not what the exercise was about. My initial drawing read flat and didn’t have a clear light sorce. It was until I redid the drawing I could fully see for myself how incredibly flat my first drawing was. I never knew before I would ever be glad I didn’t pass an assignment at first, but the things I learned while redoing this is totally worth the time spent.

Here is the first drawing and the remake so you can easily compare between the two.

I added more contrast,  lighted up her face (because it is the closest to the light sorce), darkened her middle part (where very little light would sip through) and added a hint of a shadow on the ground.

Finally the whole logic behind lighting is starting to sink in, I still have a long way to go before I truly master it but I think I’m getting there.