Shading advice

[lavaman]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

the lightsource is between the viewer and the world

The lightsource is NOT between the viewer and the world,
YOU ARE THE LIGHT SOURCE...

Like a god of the sun watching down upon his/her subjects, observing their meager lives.
With their fruitless toiling you feel pity, lending a helping hand and setting them off on a life of grand adventure.

Leading your subject on through perilous caves and dark dungeons, growing stronger with each trip.
You soon do all their is to do, as strong as they can get, and saved all the people you can save.
Nothing left to do but to send your hero to turn on their fellow adventures.

However with time, weariness and boredom grows.
It grows and it grows... to the point you can bare no longer.
Abandoned and neglected,
the fame you granted your subject fades away and eventually withers to nothing...

Cast from your favor, returning them to the life you once sought to liberate them from.
Shrouded in darkness, cursed to spend eternity in the abyss of nothing, away from your bright gaze.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by lavaman

The lightsource is NOT between the viewer and the world,
YOU ARE THE LIGHT SOURCE...

Like a god of the sun watching down upon his/her subjects, observing their meager lives.
With their fruitless toiling you feel pity, lending a helping hand and setting them off on a life of grand adventure.

However with time, weariness and boredom grows.
It grows and it grows... the the point you can bare no longer.
Abandoned and neglected, the fame you granted your subject fades away and eventually withers to nothing. Returning them to the life you once sought to liberate them from.

Was going to quote that you're arguing semantics and that it's the angle of the lightsource that matters in this instance, not the distance... but you have fooled me.