/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3979373
>>3977407

The methods such as Darken/multiply/burn or oly go one way.
>Anything brighter than pure white darkens
>When it's dodge anything brighter than black lightens

Instead you can use Overlay/soft/hard light and the likes of them
They have a more interesting math going on
>anything brighter than 50% gray lightens, anything darker darkens and anything saturated colorizes
So the neutral gray doesn't do anything at all.

So you can, for eaxmple
>get a base tone layer
>overlay a neutral gray layer on top of it (neutral itself does nothing) and paunt occulusion on it
>get another one and paint shadows and highlights on it
>boom done.