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<blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1430190" data-attributes="member: 1025">Hmm. Well, you've made me curious, so I've gone and given it a try both ways to see what difference it makes to me. I'll show you the experiments. You probably won't see all that much differnece between the results.&nbsp;I did find that as far as ease-of-use goes, I was a lot happier doing the highlights and shadows in the flattened image, because I didn't have to keep remembering which layer I was in. &nbsp;One advantage for the layered drawing was that it was a lot easier to shadow the duck's body while highlighting the legs. Since the legs are in the orange layer, shadowing the green doesn't affect them.&nbsp;But when light is falling across things of multiple colors, it is much easier to get even shadows if the image has been flattened.&nbsp;Here's what the layers look like first, then the flattened and shadowed version, and then the version I did with the shadows being applied to seperate layers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sialia, post: 1430190, member: 1025"] Hmm. Well, you've made me curious, so I've gone and given it a try both ways to see what difference it makes to me. I'll show you the experiments. You probably won't see all that much differnece between the results. I did find that as far as ease-of-use goes, I was a lot happier doing the highlights and shadows in the flattened image, because I didn't have to keep remembering which layer I was in. One advantage for the layered drawing was that it was a lot easier to shadow the duck's body while highlighting the legs. Since the legs are in the orange layer, shadowing the green doesn't affect them. But when light is falling across things of multiple colors, it is much easier to get even shadows if the image has been flattened. Here's what the layers look like first, then the flattened and shadowed version, and then the version I did with the shadows being applied to seperate layers. [/QUOTE]

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