Gray Paper - Ran Art Blog
My latest drawings are both on gray toned paper.
One is from my guide on how to paint realism.
The other is from my review on drawing paper brands and types.
Tip:
When drawing realism, you want your colors not too saturated.
Using a toned paper desaturates your colors, and makes them less vivid and rich, which is good.
Toned paper also changes the color temperature.
Look at the temperature on my apartment wall and try to see where it is warm and where it is cool.
Now look again.
The bottom part is cool due to direct skylight (sky is blue in this case), and the top part is warm due to warm lighting and the pigments of the wall.
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The similar kind of technique we use in the cinematography. When we bounce light from tinted brownish coloured wall or celing reflected light becomes more warmish in nature. To compensate that we put a gel (coloured paper) like blue called as ' colour temperature blue' (CTB) on the light to reduce the warmness. And vice versa for cool, bluish light due to wall or ceilings. I just got reminded it by your post...
Sounds interesting and logic.