Assignment: Tone Your Castle Drawing
Using the perspective drawing you created of your own castle in Chapter 5, create a toned version on your own. The steps are as follows:
1. Isolate the silhouette of your castle.
2. Define the light and dark sides. Make sure the sides are tonally distinct—no mushy castles!
3. Create re-usable mask-holding layers defining the major structures of your castle.
4. Add cast shadows. When a shaped architectural element is casting a shadow, like the castle crenellations, use that shape to define the shadow.
5. Add cores to areas where the light side meets the dark side on rounded surfaces.
6. Create a layer to add your final darks, darkening the intersection of forms, downward-facing surfaces, and regions that ...
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