The purpose of the pictures of Jeremy Irons and the Firefly guy is to compare the differing effects of two closely related lighting schemes. These are both split lighting schemes where one light source is stronger than the other, like the last of the Klaus examples.
We all agreed Firefly Guy's picture, lower right, was by far the more "comic-booky": It is lit more dramatically, because there is much more of a contrast between the intensities of the two sources. That created a big chunk of near-blackness. Plus the terminator (the border between lit and unlit) is nearly on the center of the face, which is striking-looking.
There are many subtleties in picture of Irons that would be of interest to a naturalistic painter, but I think replicating that in a comic would be three times the effort for half the impact.
And this ties back to my big point of the day: You can copy cool shadow patterns from photos and artists like Klaus (totally legit), or you can work the shadows out simply, using simple geometric solids as your mental model, and also get something very strong.
See you on Saturday! Remember that we're off Sept. 23 and Oct. 21.
John
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