Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Learn how to adapt your digital illustrations to a series of natural and artificial lighting conditions on Photoshop

Mastering light is a skill that has fascinated artists and illustrators throughout history, for its unparalleled capacity to infuse an art piece with realism and define its atmosphere. Samuel Smith describes his fascination with light as more of an obsession, constantly analyzing his surroundings to understand how it works and apply it to his art. He has worked as a visual development artist for animations on many commercials, TV shows, and two feature films, including Klaus at SPA Studios and another upcoming animated film from Illumination Studios.

In this course, Samuel shows you how to stimulate light into your work using a logical methodology that he developed over the last two years and Adobe Photoshop to apply his simple process to five different light settings. Understand how light behaves and how it affects the elements in your work to quickly resolve any light situation.

01 – Introduction – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 02 – Welcome – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 03 – Influences – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 04 – What we will do in the course – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 05 – Workspace and brushes – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 06 – Soft light Vs Hard light – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 07 – Exposure, reflections and translucency – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 08 – Preparing the drawing – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 09 – A Sunny Day – Part 1 – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 10 – A Sunny Day – Part 2 – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 11 – A Cloudy Day – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 12 – A Starry Night – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 13 – A Room Under Colored Light – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 14 – A Sunny Room – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 15 – Wrapping up the sunny scene – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 16 – Wrapping up the artificial light scene – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting 17 – Concluding remarks – Understanding Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

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