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[ekt]

coder here, not an artist
I really struggle with finding the right colors and lighting

this scene happens during breakfast, in the morning. how can I improve the 'morning light' feeling?

[Cobralad]

doesnt load for me, try different link or site

[ekt]

sorry. should be fixed

[Cobralad]

 visible now

[darklight]

Morning (and evening) light has a golden hue - can you make the light shining through the window slightly more yellow?  Also - need to check how this looks - make the light shaft more horizontal - the sun has just risen, presumably.

Also - not sure what you are going for, but can you add more cues that it is breakfast time?  E.g. a clock?  Maybe a newspaper & boiled eggs / bowl of cornflakes?  

[ekt]

thanks!
i'll play with the light shaft hue. but i feel the whole room has to change
in end there will be characters eating breakfast, so stuff on the table etc.
clock is great idea, maybe I could swap it with the framed picture on the wall

[Cobralad]

i think its hard to convey any mood with shading like that so it can be left as it is

[Shambrook]

cheap lazy way to change the vibe of the whole room, make it more golden morningy. Slap a gradient over the top of it with the colours you want for the lighting/shadow, set it to overlay and play with the opacity.

[gouhadouken]

I actually really like the color scheme on the original, I think the easiest way to sell 'morning' would be to alngle the light a bit more horizontally, and then pop some warm highlights on the surfaces catching that light beam. I'd also warm up the window itself, or maybe add a bit of a (really) subtle glow.

quick and dirty paintover:



I might also recommend cooling down the non-highlights on the fridge.

EDIT: this ten second paintover looks really silly at res :p if you zoom it out a lot you'll see what i'm talking about a bit better

[ekt]

maybe add a bit of a (really) subtle glow.

i think the glow sells it, I like it

[ekt]

in the meantime, I need the same scene in the evening. I've arrived to this
what do you think?



assume there is a candle on the table, and a lamp on the roof

[ekt]

new scene. still struggling with lights

I'm unhappy with the glow effect coming from the cell phone
I think is lacking something

[-Ross]

Gosh, what an appealing scene . . .

The problem is it's not lighting, it's just a flat spot. To have lighting you need to have form. You need to simplify your character into basic forms: boxes, spheres, cylinders, pyramids. Then you need to think about which direction the light is from, and which direction the surface of the form is facing. The more directly a surface is facing a light, the more that surface will be illuminated. If a surface is facing away from a light source, it can not recieve any light from that source (unless the light bounces off another surface first).

[ekt]

never thought about simplifying into basic forms.. now it sounds obvious.
thanks a lot Ross... i'll work on that!