/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2605733
Resist the urge to just drag the colour slider down towards black and call it a shadow. You want to bump up the saturation a little. You need to know what type of light is in your scene, warm lights like the sun create cool shadows so you slide the hue a little bit to the cool side, the opposite for cool lights like fluorescent bulbs. It's something you'll start to get from experience, life studies are very good.

For things like skin it's a little harder, subsurface scattering makes the form shadows warmer and even more saturated because the light likes to get jammed up in there and bring out some of the redness of flesh and blood. The skin directly in the light will just reflect that surface colour, not what's underneath. So that's what you were imitating in your recent drawing even if you didn't know why.