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Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

What we will do in the course?

A course by Samuel Smith , Visual Development Artist

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30,956 students

Audio: English

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About the video: What we will do in the course?

Overview

“In this video, I’ll give you a short summary of the contents of this course. Learning the method I use, will allow you to never be stuck when trying to find the color scheme for a digital painting because you will understand how to logically bring harmony to the colors in your artwork. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: What we will do in the course?, 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

“What will we do in the course? Now that you know about me and my influences, let's talk about what we're gonna do in the course. I'm gonna show you a process that I use to quickly and efficiently set up a lighting situation for any image that I wanna paint. We'll be painting the same scene 5 times with different lighting conditions, focusing on how the scene is affected when the light situation changes. I like this method because although it might not answer every question you have about lighting, it's a very good starting point to understand the logic of light, how it works, how it bounces...”

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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (1365)
30956 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 22m)
7 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Samuel Smith

A course by Samuel Smith

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Visual Development Artist

Samuel Smith is a freelance visual development artist for animation, with a passion for igniting animation projects with light. After studying 3D animation, he started painting digitally without ever thinking he could achieve a professional level. However, after some years of hard work and dedication, continuously researching and observing his surroundings, he started to work on important animation projects and was hired by SPA, Spain, as a color artist.

He has worked on many commercials, TV shows, and two feature films: Klaus for SPA Studios and another upcoming animated film for Illumination Studios.