Colour and light
Light and shadow: tonal values
A value scale runs from white to black. With highlight, mid-tone, core shadow, reflected light and cast shadow, you draw how light falls on a shape.
Why
How can you still tell on a black-and-white photo whether something is round or flat, and where the sun was?
Light never falls equally strongly everywhere. Where the light hits a shape, it becomes light; on the other side, it becomes dark.
Those light and dark tones show the shape, the direction of the light and even the time of day.
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