Planets and Space Painting
HOW TO SPRAY PAINT PLANETS AND UNIVERSE
Planets and space painting can make us imagine as if we are in a different beautiful environment where anything is possible. We visualize a lot of beautiful and colourful abstract scenes . Most of us already know that we can paint beautiful planets by using spray paint art techniques. The shadow and the highlight along with the texture make the difference between a planet that looks cartoon-like and one that could be in a fantasy universe.
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The Mountains Behind Horizon |
A shadow is generally a darker color and a highlight is generally a brighter color. However, like all rules, this one is also designed to be broken. But let’s start simple:-
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The Blue Planet |
- Generally, shadows are darker, transparent colors. Black is the classic shadow but you can also use any transparent color as a secondary shadow. You would fade from blue to black for example. Or maybe purple to blue to black.
- A highlight is generally bright. It could be ivory, white, yellow or a brighter version of any color…pink for example.
- Often adding white and a transparent color on top makes a sophisticated highlight.
- Shadow and light doesn’t always go in the same place.Here is another example