Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate

Overview

“In this lesson I'm going to help you understand how light falls on the surface of objects so you can see how we can easily add volume to our illustration. Once we know where the main light source is, I will teach how to apply lights and shadows through color to give volume to the different objects that make up our illustration. Since our end result relies heavily on creating compelling volume, I would first like to briefly explain how light falls on objects to create that sense of volume. I'll give a very basic and standard example of a sphere and how it casts a shadow on a plane. ”

In this video lesson Óscar Lloréns addresses the topic: Theory about light and shadow, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate. Learn how to approach an illustration project with different techniques to find your style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Theory of light and shadows Now I'll help you to understand how light behaves on the different elements of our scene in order to give our illustration volume. Let's take a look. A very important aspect that we have to keep in mind before starting any illustration or painting project, is how light behaves. In this lesson, what I will try to explain is precisely how light behaves on the different elements in our scene. For this, I have created a basic scene where we have our light source, represented by this shape, that I'll place here on the right, and we have a sphere. A sphere is usually a...”

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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate

• Level: Beginner
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• 18520 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (2h 45m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration