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Establishing a highlight pattern in water

Establishing a highlight pattern in water

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Establishing a highlight pattern in water

Now the water is a, is a really important aspect of this because it shows the reflection of light. It's a texture that leads your eye to the main characters. So, it's tricky because the water is really just a whole series of highlights. And so they're, they're like a, a pattern. And so trying to establish that pattern was a challenge, because I had to think of what it would look like in perspective. This pattern of mark making is going from foreground to middle to background. So how do you achieve that with color, and how do you achieve that with pattern? So I had to think about, well, probably the whitest white, the lightest things, the brightest part, will be closest to the characters. So when I put any of the water, and little, they're basically supposed to be, like, little reflections on the water, I kept those things in the foreground. And I used, I had a kind of purply-blue color here, so I thought, well, what will work with that if I add a little color to the white that's…

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