Highlights

Now that I've laid down a ground that's dark enough to have a good reaction to the colors that'll be put on top, I'm going to pull out highlights on the surface, so that you can see anything from 50% value up to white, essentially. And when I look up at the color mockup that I've made, the whitest thing that I see is the collar of the shirt. So, I'll start by pulling up color in that area. And basically, the reason why I do this, is so that as I block in the color, I understand where my edges will be, what my lightest light and medium tones will be. Then I'll lay in my darkest value. It also helps when laying in color. If you have something white, or light, to paint, you don't want to have to be layering so much color and blocking out the ground so much so to get it to the right value. So, I'm going to help it along by just pulling up the color and creating a sense of light, as in the light on this form, and also the lightness of the value of the color. So you can see in this piece…