BA1a - Light

This is the first art piece I've decided to evaluate, called 'Layover'. It is drawn by the artist Jadrien Cousens, a photorealistic environment expert. I decided to use this for light because of the very intriguing lighting used in this drawing. There is only one source of light, the sun, and it overpowers any other lighting there may or may not have been. It is either an early sunset or late sunrise, though this may be an alien world where these rules do not apply so harshly. There is a definite use of refraction in this piece, where the light comes through the large windows onto the ground and walls and is distorted. There is a lack of bounce light, as even with the light from the sun penetrating through, the room is still somewhat dark and distorted. This definitely sets a darker mood in this piece, and you reflect on how the man in the focal point of the piece feels. This lack of bounce light may be due to the shiny flooring, which may be black of colour. Due to the sun being behind tall skyscrapers, you don't get as much detail from those buildings as you would if the sun wasn't shining strongly behind.This drawing is also mostly shadows and silhouettes due to the intensity, yet dark quality of the sunlight.

This is the second piece I have decided to evaluate for lighting. I decided to use this piece because it has a similarly interesting lighting to it, where the alien cacti glow brightly in the night. This piece is called 'The Gardener' by tumblr blogger Arodude. There is a surprising lack of reflection, or bounce light. This may be due to the, what I assume is, sand below the cacti and gardener. There is strong light absorption in this image, however the gardener is being hit by some reflective light. I do feel like there would be more light reflected on the floor and the gardener, but perhaps the cacti keep their light very internally. There is some light coming from behind a hill as well as the stars in the sky would create some light. I do however really like the lighting of this piece as if the cacti did light up more of the image then I assume that it would be far too bright.