Didi •♡•

@aldebarandidi.bsky.social

Hi I'm Didi! ☀️ She/her ☀️ Artist Raising from my ashes //burnout 🐦‍🔥 ✉️DanielaBigi05@gmail.com (business) ✉️ dyddycat@gmail.com (fanworks) 🔗 https://linktr.ee/aldebaran_artworks

The key to realistically paint materials is to understand the "Specularity Spectrum" (term made up by me). Once you understand how reflective or not something is, you can roughly deduce how much you need to emphasize form shadows vs reflections (highlights), or whether to combine both.

Info graphic explaining the specularity spectrum (a term I made up), comparing how reflective or dull some materials are compared to others. On the one extreme end there's a mirror (maximum reflectivity); on the other end a dull material like Vantablack or rough wood (least reflectivity).