Hi everyone. In this lesson, let's talk about tonal perspective, which is basically how to achieve depth by a difference of tones. How to create depth by giving the sensation that there is atmosphere between the objects. So, let's get started. I have a simple arrangements of shapes here with the same tone. So, let's try to manipulate not only the shape position but also the tones. Let me get rid of some of them. Let me start positioning them to achieve something that resembles a landscape. Let's begin by establishing a new layer by representing our ground plane here. Let's fill this with slightly darker color than the color of the background. So, let's pick up the color of one object. Let's make it slightly lighter and let's fill this shape with the ground color. Now, let's begin positioning our rock formations to create our landscape. So, let me place this to the left and let me resize it. The same compositional principles apply as in repetition, variety, unity as we've seen in previous chapters. So, if you don't remember exactly what was said about the principles of composition, you can always go back and re-watch the videos. So, I'm just resizing the shapes here. I'm trying to place them to create a little bit of difference between the planes. But, still you can see that we don't have too much depth, only in the position of the objects but we don't have depth in regards of tonal difference. So, let's take care of that in a bit. So, let me put this here on the right. Let's create something to frame our composition. These two taller shapes on the corners. Let's make it this one pull this down a little bit, and let's make it wider. Like so. Looks good so far. So, let's just feel this area here. This is a basic setup we can use. So, we can create a little bit of depth with just basic regular shapes. Let's just move things where they need to be. The foreground on the top layers, the middle ground in the middle layers and the background on the bottom layers. Let's just start changing the tones of our shapes. You can see that automatically we gain a little bit of sense of depth. Now, we start separating the planes of our composition. So, just a slight change in tone creates depth. Let's make a little bit lighter. This background shape so we can have even more depth. The more the tones approach the background color, the more receding in space they will be. We have these two shapes here. Actually, we still have two bigger shapes we can put in the foreground. So, let's put this one a little bit more to the left. So, frames even more our composition. You can see that there's a progression of the height of the shapes. Making it darker, makes it advance in space. Let me pull this down a little bit. Just a little bit and let's do the same on the other side. They are already in front of everything. So, it's just a matter of positioning them better and make them darker. So, lets just adjust this like so. Let's make it darker, the same as the auto shape. The darker we make this shape, the more close to us it will look. So, it's slightly darker than the shape in the left. It looks a little bit closer to us. You can see that by just manipulating the tones. We now have a strong sense of depth. It looks like we have rock formations in the landscape on top of what it could be either a ground or a lake or something. We have this impression that the background shapes are receding in space just by manipulating the differences in tone. Let's draw a cloud shape here. So, we can add a little bit more depth and more interesting elements to our scene. So, let's create a slightly lighter shape than the sky color and let's fill the selection. So, we can have a design at cloud here. Let's transform it just a little bit. So, we can have it placed a little better in our composition. Behind the foreground shapes. So, we create even more depth through overlapping. Overlapping is a powerful tool to create depth. Always take this into consideration when you are placing your shapes. How they overlap. Let's make a different shape for this cloud. Let's move it up. Still behind our foreground shape. Let's duplicate this and place it between the rocks so we can have even more depth. Now, let's make this one slightly thinner. So, you can have some variation in the shapes of this clouds. So, let's have it in a place where we have some overlapping between the shapes of the foreground, background and the cloud of course. You can see that we now have a good sense of depth. We can get even more depth if we manipulate the tones in the background making it closer to the tone of the sky. The closer it gets, the more distant it will be from us because we understand that there's a big layer of atmosphere between us and these distant objects. So, let's adjust the tones of the auto shapes so we can gain even more depth. Slightly lighter here. Not as light as the ground. Let's suggest this two framing shapes both on the right and on the left just slightly lighter. Same thing with the other one. Remember that you get this hue saturation window by using the control hue hotkey. Let's just adjust the color of the ground so we can have the shapes standing out a little bit more. So, let's select the ground color and let's make it a little bit lighter, as if it was a river or a lake or something. You can have this rock formation creating all this depth in our landscape. So, you can see that it's very easy to manipulate the sensation of depth especially if you understand how the different tones work together. So, practice this not only on our creations but try to identify this in real life situations because the same sensation of depth occur in nature. So, thanks for watching and I see you all in the next video.
