What is this ring shaped highlight that I keep seeing everywhere nowadays? Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers use
>>8009353i think its supposed to be one streak of light doubled by your two eyes, but really its just nonsense.
>>8009357Is there a term for this? Does this happen in real life?
>>8009353>Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers useYes, and some artists use it for outdoor scenes without thinking for even 0.2 seconds WHY it's a ring shaped light. Zero critical thinking skills, just monkey see monkey immediately do.
>>8009365The ring does look nice though. Filling it would make the piece look imbalance
>>8009353>Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers useYou answered your own question>>8009365It's entirely possible they're aware and do it because they want the look.
>>8009365It's like when children draw little windows on balloons.
>>8009369>you answered your own questionI thought it was supposed to be something else since its so common. Go on danbooru and you will see it every ten posts. I'm surprised there hasnt been a tag for it yet
>>8009370Except that the balloons have soul.
>>8009353>>8009353>Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers useYes.>>8009357You are a retard.
>>8009353Yeah you're spot on, it's a ring light. The reason they use it even in outdoor lighting, is because it's really good at showing the 3d forms. It just looks more interesting than a regular highlight
>>8009365The thing is it does look good and adds a bit of depth so its kinda understandable why some people still use it in settings that make no sense with it
>>8009387Why does it look so natural though? Or would it look weird to someone who doesn't know what a right light is
>>8009365And there's double stacked retardation when they also draw a dark splotch around the reflection to increase contrast.
>>8009365>just monkey see monkey doya, theyre artists after all.
>>8009391art is just a collection of illusions, plenty of stuff looks "right" but falls apart when contrasted with reality. you could take it a step further and say that since art is two dimensional it literally cannot be an accurate representation of three dimensional reality
>>8009387There isn't anything wrong with the reflection of light being there and yes, it adds depth. The problem is that it's a ring instead of being a dot if it's an outdoor scene. Since >>8009371seems to be where the OP image is from and it seems(?) to be indoors, it's technically fine. Maybe she's streaming having sex or something, I dunno. It's just the ones outside that makes me roll my eyes.
>>8009423Just realized it's not the same image, whoops lol. Either way, both still look like they're indoors.
Media conditioning. It's a ring light that every female content creator uses these days.>see ring lights in nsfw videos>draw nsfw art with ring-light highlights because of its association with porn and titty streamers
>>8009379LMAO peak of dunning kruger>>8009363take a look at a plate.
>>8009365I think it's one of those things that you'll have to put in even if you know it's wrong because the audience doesn't and will annoy you about it. It's like drawing some sort.of lens flare when the sun is in frame, you'd think even if those guys don't know what naked girls who want to have sex with them look like they'd at least be familiar with the giant white ball in the sky, but it turns out they aren't either.
>>8009371there is, it's ring_light_reflection
>>8009353It's the reflection from a ring light. You know, the kind you use as a cheap home-studio lighting solution. Commonly seen in youtube, onlyfans, fantia etc.Not sure who started it, but it popped up in illustrations a lot more recently, even when it makes no sense. Personally I'm not a fan, but whatever.
There was a thread about this last year on the same questionhttps://warosu.org/ic/thread/7517102
>>8009353>>8009369>>8009371>>8009448>>8009659One can't help but think that the CIA is behind this circular halo psyopMight be connected to Rotschild and MK ULTRA
>>8009663i find it funny that there is a certain level of monkey see monkey do going on where people add the ring light highlight simply because they saw someone else add it to their art without knowing whyon the left: taking a picture with a smartphone, that makes sense why a ring light would be involvedon the right: medieval isekai character in the woods. just a random underboob ringlight
>>8009722I think the reason why it proliferated so much is because AI does the monkey-see-monkey-do thing as well, and it's not very smart about it. This may be one of the first and most visible instances of AI conditioning human artists to draw a certain way on a mass scale.
>>8009353AI models are trained on many images, many of these images use ring lights. These artifacts are copied by both artists and models alike leading to this highlight being everywhere
>>8009353ring light. original artist may have worked from photo ref a lot and it found its way into the final from a real hoto, they're trying to capture the idea that the subject is being photographed, or they just like how it looks and drew it regardless.
>>8009722Those are subdermal nipples.
>>8009365Zoomers in general
>>8009353its an appealing shape and it looks real so thats all you need appeal > realism
>>8009391>Why does it look so natural though?You should definitely ease off on gooning to oiled up tits
>>8009803even for /ic/ this is terrible advice
>>8009353>b-but why they use it when there is no ring light in the scenarioBecause looks good. That's all.
>>8009353Better?
>>8009365I dont like ringlights because they look stupid and they're usually for indoor cosplayers. And so they came off as chasing trends. And they kinda make the character appears bimbofied or something. I prefer just adding backlights or rimlights instead.
>>8009847I see tho ringlights does makes the breasts appears wetter and I guess there's a pros to ringlights, since it's easier to control its shape you can loosely highlight the contours of the breast or whatever object you put it on.
>>8009871No, you fucking mouthbreather. Ringlights are used because they don't cast any hard shadows from the point of the camera, thus there is no obvious flash photo effect. Stuff these vibe explanations up your prolapsed ass.
>>8009357you are american
>>8009791You have zoomer derangement syndrome
>>8009875Seethe over his vibe explanations all you want, he's right
>>8009353It's ring light that you often see in professional figure photoshoots. It just so happened to become a trend.
>>8009797Yeah it just looks more wet when you want >>8009803that
>>8009353It's an error of ia, that's why you see it everywhere, the aijeet have no knowledge of light and shadow and raise generations of ia full of errors like this.
>>8010383Spotted the zoomer
>>8010646>>8010383
>>8010649>>8010646
>>8009488You are a retard.
>>8010676>>8010383
>>8009353>Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers useUnsure, but I started adding them to my art and i do enjoy it
>atrocious, senseless, self-advertising post as usual
>>8011154I spy with my little eye an anally wrecked vagueposter
>>8011147And it looks dumb because it doesn't make sense.
>>8011147Why do you have highlights in your shadows?
>>8011554you thinking with wrong head
>>8009365well because money and appeal, same reason why a lot of artist would shade one boob or ass cheek. Normies love it and coomers too.
>>8009722No shit, that's an aie sloppa troon
>>8011147I mean, you are the definition of the derivative copy paste aritst that has no idea what he's doing, so that makes total sense.
This particular concept is tricky and probably worth a study for anyone interested in rendering.
>>8009353>Is this supposed to be the reflection of those ring shaped lights that streamers useYesThey keep using it because it's easy and it works, like throwing sticks of dynamite as a martial art.Occams Razor and shit.
>>8012946i won't say that there is a 0% chance that AI isn't used for rendering or something, but the guy was doing art since before AI gen, there is a specific point in like 2024/2025 where he switched to having ring lights on everything he draws. before that he was doing normal round highlights like everyone else at the time.
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