Warm Light = Cool Shadows? Or Is It A Myth?

I have often heard the rule that if you have warm light you have cool shadows, and if you have cool light you have warm shadows. But is this thr truth or a myth?
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[@KapookLynn]

The ‘there is no color in the shadow but the secondary light‘ things really enlightens me

[@bruce-le-smith]

Do not try and bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself

[@FaerieEnderHare]

unintentional pun moment?

[@RM_VFX]

This also answers the question "what color is chrome?" The answer is, "whatever it's reflecting."

[@Foervraengd]

1:28 this whole segment helps more than all of the boring spheres we usually use as shadow reference

[@Maddibitts]

This video blew my mind, I feel like I suddenly understand what I'm painting rather than just trusting a process

[@ScottHebertArt]

dang. The blue sky being secondary light source blew my mind a little bit. This was filmed really well and it greatly aided in my understanding of what you were talking about. Having you on screen as the presenter while the lights changed color and you changed environment was a really good choice even though it probably took forever to film. thanks for going the extra mile it really helps.

[@carnigoth]

Perfect explanation. I was always fascinated by sky blue shadows in the snow

[@nicolas89675]

1:26 that is such a good transition

[@bsmarques]

How can a short video be so full of information and lessons? Blew my mind, many times, thank you

[@Hannah-wh3vo]

I'm just watching your interview with Kelsey Rodriguez and wanted to pop on here to leave you a comment thanking you for inspiring me. I had a bad time at art school and dropped out early and ended up doing a degree in something completely unrelated. For the past 12 years since graduating I've been really down on myself for never becoming the artist I always wanted to be. Your videos have taught me an important lesson: that it's okay to be humble and to go through periods of being a "bad artist", because improvement is inevitable if you put in the time and the effort. Your explanation and explorations of colour specifically have sparked something in my brain and the makings of a path back to creating art has started to materialise in front of me. I hope KZbin is a rewarding experience for you because I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you create next! Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and experience with us

[@reallydarren]

Jeremy, taking it outside is just another level! I've learned so much, having these real life examples makes things in my brain click. Thank you for doing all of that!!

[@ranasi1210]

I spent 5 ears of my life in an art school, but none of classes there were nearly as interesting as yours! Thank you so much! I hope we get to see more of your color theory/painting/etc videos🥺

[@MM-qm9ld]

You spent 5 years at an art school? Ouch.

[@citadelofwinds1564]

This has been extremely helpful. All too often I have come across dogmatic statements from artists and art teachers, and it's turned out that their claims apply only in some situations. But because those claims are expressed as rules, all too often people end up painting what they are TOLD is there, rather than what they OBSERVE to be there. This video has certainly taught me to look at both the shadow side of faces and to consider what kind of light is creating the colour seen on the face - the colour temperature of the light source, the direction of light, bounced light, etc. Thank you for the thorough explanation of colours in shadows.

[@canoners]

Great to see you you post this! I used to find it weird that people always refer to the artistic choice of warm light and cool shadow as some kind of rule, even though, as you mentioned in this video, that the coolness usually comes from the sky. Throughout my career, I realize that art directors use it less as a rule, but more to increase the appeal of an image, because color contrast usually makes an image more pleasing to the eye.

[@felipegrebogeart]

This kind of content being available for free is just amazing! You are a amazing teacher, Jeremy! Its insane how a good explanation can change the way wee see the world!

[@JaneXemylixa]

I always love ultramarine-blue shadows in the snow in winter. Especially next to the orange of a sunset. No illusions about where the color of the shadows comes from on such days

[@user-kt5cp7lv5e]

Thank you, I learned a lot. I never had a problem with light, I just drew what I saw. When I was in school (1970's) we didn't talk about temperature. One day the instructor told me about reflected light. Never had a problem with it after that. Your doing the same as he did, strait out not hiding behind catch words. I like that, no mysteries just what is.

[@vin4216]

It's amazing when Jeremy turns on the secondary light source, the area where the warm and cool light meets, becomes purple-ish in color.

[@JuanManuelTastzian]

Hi Jeremy, I wanted to take a minute to thank you for sharing this. This "myth" of "warm light/cool shadows" and vice versa is something very widespread, and "most of the time" true and "mind blowing", when examples are on a wide open area. What people don't know is that the reason for that being true in such examples, is the direct light of the sun and the reflected light of the sky, as you explain here in a perfectly clear way. Once again, thank you very much for clarifying this!

[@SSS765]

Thank you for addressing and explaining this so thoroughly. I have had this conversation/argument for years, how the rule of thumb ‘warm light equals cool shadows’ is simply not true. This video is SAVED for future reference. 👍🏻😎

[@bruce-le-smith]

an interior designer told me something similar once. she said that the same paint or finish would look different in a room with light coming from different cardinal directions and depending on what objects were outside the window. a big tree or a lawn would cast in a lot of green colour, and that might look cooler in a room with north facing windows during the day versus in a room with west facing windows in the evening, and then adding in multiple windows or doorways, etc. great video thanks!

[@Lizard1582]

Legendary channel

[@RemidiyArt]

I genuinely love how you explain things, there's a reason I always refer people here lol

[@T.Florenz]

As an artist, I only use "warm light; cool shadows" as a shorthand for color relativity and a beginning point for teaching color and light theory. Learning more about how color IS light, and the scientific ways that light changes as it interacts with objects and environments (like the reddish edge that appears right before the terminator angle, called "Diffraction") helps to introduce more complexity and understanding. Love your breakdown of the subject!

[@geoffmoug9881]

Tremendous job of explaining light and bounce light in the shadows. Thankyou. Your videos are very helpful.

[@MarcoGuadalupi]

This is a very precious, enlightening video. Thanks so much!

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Love your channel learning so much! Thank you! 🙏🏻

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Another genuinely insightful and helpful lesson! Thank you!!!

[@johncollado1151]

Color concept has been the bane of existence for me. Your channel has helped extremely in trying to understand that complexity. Thank you for all you do to help.

[@ivangraypiece]

your teaching is so good and well done! thank you so much for making this a public video for all people around the globe! :)

[@kindbutangry]

i love you so much. i love how passionate you are when explaining this stuff. ❣

[@changemymind06]

This is the best video on lighting I've found and sadly you're only the 2nd artist I've seen on YT who properly explains this. Your real life examples were extremely helpful! It was cool to see how much the light bounced from your hand when it was by your face (when you had the warm & blue light) and you immediately see a patch of warm light in the blue. Thank you for making such a great video with such wonderful examples!

[@jozseflaszlo7445]

I'm so glad to be alive to see this video! Thank you for making it, brilliant and very helpful!

[@MrS690]

Great video as always. Learning 3D Rendering/Lighting taught me a ton regarding light and shadows for painting.

[@hichamville]

I did the opposite.. I learned a lot about colors .. light n shadow from painting to improve my 3D renderings 😊

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This is the channel I've been looking for. Thank you.

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I love your channel, I love lighting and I learn so much from your videos. Great work!

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Thanks you so much for making this excellent video! It's really enlightening!

[@nellow461]

This short film is really cool and useful, but one slight drawback is that if human faces are used as examples, the semi-transparency of the skin can reveal the color of blood vessels underneath, creating an illusion of warm and cool variations under a single light source. I think it would be better to use opaque materials for the examples, such as a plaster sphere.

[@SavMortem]

You are always such a good teacher. You break down complex subjects so well in a way that they make sense. Thank you!!!

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You do such a great job Jeremy. Enjoyed you for years. Thank you

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Love your video! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

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I always learn so much from your videos. You are a great teacher

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incredibly helpful! thanks so much for this video!

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I LOVE ur channel. My art has improved exponentially. TY! ❤

[@syaning_]

Thank you for this well produced video Mentor Jeremy! You always deliver amazing content that blows my mind every time. You make color theory such a fun and not so overwhelming topic for us.

[@IraKane]

One of the best explanations i've seen ever about this subject matter. Really enlightening😁

[@JasonKey3D]

excellent demonstrations, great stuff Jeremy 👏

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This was helpful! Really useful information

[@abbyjentson2563]

Thank you for what you do. You’re really helping me be more intentional with my color and lighting choices!

[@DanielCote-ke6sg]

Jeremy, these observations are so accurate and inspiring, I learned a lot, and you are a great teacher, thank you. I will watch all your other videos for sure.

[@schhhart2758]

Absolutely brilliantly done! Thank you🙏🏽❤️ Really clear, accurate information that just brought so much to my understanding. Really appreciate your approaches. Keep up the great work, brother✊🏽💥🎉

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Thank you so much for your wisdom. Your videos about color are very helpful!

[@karim-uf7dg]

Such a Perfect explanation thank you!!

[@BrandiWineRn]

Best description and examples that support what u are saying! Thank you bc I have looked for these answers and was tired of all these supposed rules which I found to be wrong but I am very new to art . Thank you

[@supermarionini]

Incredibly helpful video. Thank you for sharing the knowledge

[@photonsonpixels]

Great tutorial Jeremy. Thank you.

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So much wisdom...I still remember your dvd's glad to have you around sr ❤❤❤

[@zlobna_bulka]

Love it! Very simple practical explanation. Thank you!❤

[@dorigusu2577]

you are a godsend sir. I've gone through so many diff tutorials and courses, but your one video helped clear up so much about "shadow" color and temperature in general!!

[@gillbaker1310]

Thanks Jeremy ☺️ so helpful! No one else has explained this as well as you do..!

[@justafroginalog9046]

This is an amazing explanation! Thank-you

[@toddelliott3239]

Excellent tutorial!!! Covered so much as efficiently as possible. I want to know what lighting system you’re using!?!? Incredible demonstrations 👏

[@hunteriadkins]

Thank you so much for these videos, they're extremely insightful.

[@ramongomez8389]

Amazing class Jeremy, Thank you so much!!

[@missyg_]

Thanks!!! You are very good at explaining things, and transform complicated stuff into easy to understand.

[@dogbark]

jeremy I've learned so much from you, you are the best art teacher!!

[@mmillerism]

thank you for making these videos its so helpfull having practical examples like this

[@RafiAnimates]

Well said, and effectively demonstrated. Thank you.

[@Grondhammar]

Great content, very well presented. The excellent demos also helped me realise that secondary lighting is critical to the mood of a piece.

[@hiddenwings91]

This video is a pure miracle. Thank you so much!

[@abeermalik1]

Loved it. So many information and cleared so many doubts. Thank you..:)

[@Kanfir]

Thank you very much! You've done a great research and presentation! Greate job!

[@YassineCherifi]

you always say things that really change our view entirely I never thought of it that way till now, thank you so much Jeremy 🙏❤

[@stephaniechafe694]

Really awesome to see so many practical examples in nature, I still got so much to learn. Such a helpful demonstration!

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Amazing video! We thanks you for sharing your knowledge with us🙏🏼

[@3dchick]

THANK YOU! This helped so so much!

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very nice and informative video as always, love your content

[@SwenRB]

This is very clear, thank you!

[@felix_xb]

Fantastic presentation aids in the video, really drove the point home so easily.

[@__Mal_]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@TheChameleon2008]

Great video and packed with useful information!!!

[@ItchaBoi]

What "warm light cool shadows" or vice versa does do, is provide additional contrast, which is a solid artistic choice

[@saradavis5381]

Perfect video thank you!!

[@joelweyhe6801]

Excellent, live-example way to demonstrate the concept!

[@slamotte]

what an amazing demonstration! light is such a wonderful subject to study

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Hey Jeremy, So really weird, I was a big fan of your artwork when I first started out in digital art about 15 years ago, but I completely lost track of your work and I hate to admit it, but over the years I forgot your name too. It was only the other day when I thought to myself "I wonder what happened to that brilliant artist that painted that amazing Cottage in the woods?" then today came across this channel, but it was only looking at your video thumbnails I thought I recognised your art style, then I found your name, then I realised! So great to see you are doing well with the YT channel and hope everything is going well for you in your career too. Thank you for being a huge inspiration especially in the early part of my art journey!

[@arknark]

Thanks for the lesson!

[@numinoos]

Excellent tutorial. As a nature and wildlife photographer, I often wrestle with adjusting White Balance when capturing images of birds and monkeys in dense Forrest cover because of this bounce light and subsurface scattering. Thank you.

[@MatoCreates]

amazing and valuable knowledge for visual artists :)

[@Kozakology]

Awesome explanation! Very nicely illustrated with your lighting set up. Thanks -

[@markdinsdale4869]

More knowledge in this video then i ever got in 3 years of art college. Hope this video blows uo your channel

[@LindaMalmstadt]

Thank you! This was so educational

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Very didactic and easy to understand! Thank you very much!

[@JerryLecor]

This is gold thank you so much

[@hilanderld]

Thank you! It's been some time since I've been trying to understand this subject.

[@rejanrams1339]

really amazing tutorial sir. thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@catastropheoverclock]

I had a teacher ask if the warm light makes the shadows cool then what would cool light do to shadows, I said make them warm, and the teacher laughed and said no they become even more cool. This sounded wrong but I was just a student. Years later I asked a better art teacher if they were right and he thought for a moment and said, "their answer doesn't make sense, if something is cooler than cool then than means your cool was really a warm; warmness and coolness are relative in relation to each other, your warmest color is your warm and your coolest are your cool" and I was like damn I wish you were in my class years ago

[@nicole6532]

This video is brilliant oh my god, I really appreciate the way you demonstrate the things you talk about

[@attheranch873]

Very helpful, thanks!!

[@Bubleone1]

It's so very kind of you to share your knowledge on this subject! I truly appreciate it very much! Thank you!!! Greetings from someone who always wants to learn🔦..... (I'm from The Netherlands) 🎨

[@tessellatiaartilery8197]

This was fascinating. And the explanation of real examples was highly instructive. Thank you very much for this excellent tutorial.

[@rickblankenship7016]

Excellent analysis! You have destroyed the myth!