Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn how to apply lights and shadows to give volume to your drawings. First we will have to choose and identify the direction or source of the light and according to this we will illuminate a basic figure as a sphere. Then we will apply this same method to our illustration taking into account the shapes of our elements. Finally I will teach you a little trick to illuminate elements with a stronger light if you wanted to. ”

In this video lesson Felipe Novoa (FEN) addresses the topic: Lights and shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style. Use pop culture elements to turn your illustrations into fun products with Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“LIGHTS AND SHADOWS This is taking more and more shape. In this lesson I will explain how to apply light and shadow to give more volume to your illustration. Let's see how. I will do a basic exercise to explain how an image lights up. I will do it through the classic sphere exercise. First I'm going to make a sphere of any color And the second thing we have to choose is where the light comes from. If the light comes from here, from here, from the front or from below. So it's the first thing you have to define when you're going to light up the illustration. In this one I'm going to assume tha...”

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Course summary for: Product Illustration Using Your Signature Style

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (89)
• 1431 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 41m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Design, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Digital Illustration, Packaging, Traditional illustration