Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this video, I’ll introduce myself and talk about my path to becoming a visual development artist for animation. How I first got interested in lighting, and how I learned to paint the way I do. I hope this helps you identify more with my journey through art and encourages you to pursue your goals. I also share some resources that helped me along the way.”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: About me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting. Learn how to adapt your digital illustrations to a series of natural and artificial lighting conditions on Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“About me Hi, my name is Sam. I'm a visual development artist for animation. That means that I paint to try to translate a director's vision into images. I focus on light and colour, and in my work I produce a lot of colour keys. These are simple images that we paint to have the lighting department figure out how to light a certain scene. I've always been drawing in my notebooks and on the tables. I think it was mostly an escape from boredom where I felt free, as I'm sure many of you do. However, I never thought that I could do this as a job and that I had what it took to make it as a profes...”

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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (1365)
• 30957 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 22m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration