3pt Final Scene
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After
making my Notan, 1pt and 2pt sketches, it was now time to approach my final 3pt
scene.
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My 3pt
scene was inspired by my 3D work, since the project brief of “3pt scene with strong
lighting set up” was something that lined up well with my fireplace. For
context on that project, you can see the blog posts associated with it where I
covered the concept.
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I did not use the 3D models I made for that project in this drawing, and
you can see that the surrounding landscape is a lot different to the result in
3D.
Initial Attempt at 3pt:
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After I
had my brief and idea/concept, I began sketching. I made this rough colour blocked
scene, keeping the lines within my 3pt grid.
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This
initial attempt showed that my lighting concept was strong, and I could easily
have a cohesive colour scheme of the brown, red and green, with orange light
throughout.
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The main
issue I had with this was that my location to start this scene was at a section
of the perspective grid that warped objects way too much, the table being the
worst offender.
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I took
this image to a crit session, and mostly received positive feedback on the
actual lighting of the scene and with some tweaks I could have left this one as
my final – but an alternative of redrawing the scene in a better perspective
was mentioned, and so I decided to keep this version as a more detailed
thumbnail and then began version 2.
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Initial 3pt Attempt |
Second attempt at 3pt – ¾ progress:
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Once I
had decided that the warping on the table was too much, I began reworking the
scenes layout too. This time, I kept elements that went off the edges of the
scene like a table and the planter to obscure the issues with perspective
warping.
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Because I
moved the edge pieces however, this left the middle of the scene empty – so I
chose to add a sleeping cat next to the fire to fill the scene like the stool
was now.
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I removed
the butterflies from this scene because I thought that they might look quite
conflicting, as well as extra clutter like books and the jar,
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What this
scene was now desperately missing was a combination of line work to define
objects, and a readjustment of contrast – since the scene overall was looking a
lot flatter than my original.
· The books at the shelves at the back as something I thought hard on and cut mostly to help with time; the amount of time it would take to calculate the perspective on the books so that they did not look distracting was going to be a lot so for now I left it, and if I had time later, I decided I would come back to it.
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Second attempt – ¾ progress |
Final Piece:
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To try
and fix the contrast of this piece, I made a layer on top of my work that
turned the saturation off. This exposed the lack of values I had all over the piece,
and even the areas I wanted to be light were not at the bright end of the spectrum.
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From
this, I added several gradient maps:
1.
A general
one affecting the tree, walls, table elements etc.
2.
A gradient
affecting only the foliage.
3.
A gradient
for the red areas – the book cover and the rug on the floor.
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These gradient
maps made the piece look more cohesive as a whole and assisted in making the
lighting feel gradual and bright in the tree itself.
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After
this, I did a pass of both highlights and general linework to refine elements
like the foliage and the front objects, taking time to make sure each object was
separated. The highlights were mostly focussed in areas like the leaves and the
windows in the tree, as well as a rim light on the metal grate, and on the
front plant pot.
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This made
the scene seem both more stylised and more realistic compared to before, and I
am so much happier with the result now that the colours and the lighting pair
nicely together.
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If I were
to do this again, I would have added the books. These were never added but I
did add small amounts of shading with line work to the shelves. In hindsight,
even something like spiders’ webs would have really pushed that area of the
drawing since it seems redundant, but that is something I will have to remember
next time.
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Final Piece |
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I am happy
with the result of my 3pt scene. I think the result looks cohesive and looks
like a stylised scene that could inform a 3D room. I wish I had more time to
add extra clutter to the scene, but I am more inclined to have an accurate,
basic room than a cluttered and wrong room when the main result of the brief was
a 3pt lit scene.
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I think
compared to my previous Isometric environment project I have come a long way in
colouring my image; a critique I obtained was that the purple glow of my final
made the whole scene look artificial, so I hope this time everything having
this warm hue informed from the lighting will look realistic and believable.
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