Visual Design - Rendering Curved Surfaces

For this task we were only given the outline of this creature, the outline was from the artist JorduSchell. The task was to add light and shade to the image to create a realistic 3D effect. We were taught how stacking the paint with a low opacity brush can create the difference in lighting which we desired. We kept this image in black and white to show the differences in lighting more easily. 

I enjoyed this task very much, I learnt more about lighting and shade than I previously knew and I'm happy with how the image turned out. Showing light and shadow has never particularly been a strong point of mine so this I feel helped me to grow as an artist. I'll definitely be using techniques here in the future and hopefully I'll grow even more.