Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you my workspace and a simple brush set, and introduce a few key features of Photoshop that I’ll be using in the course. We’ll be talking about useful photoshop panels, which shortcuts I use, the brushes I’ll give you and how to use them, I’ll also present two important layer modes for the method we’ll use and a few useful tips.”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: Workspace and brushes, 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

“Workspace and brushes Now that you know a bit more about myself and my influences and how I came to learn all of this, I'd like to introduce you to the workspace that I use, how I organize it to be more efficient, and I'm also gonna show you the tools and brushes that I use when painting. Let's get into it. Let me just quickly go over creating a new document. I'm gonna make it 1200 by 1200 pixels. I think that using a smaller canvas helps when you're learning to paint because it allows you not to get caught up in small details. I actually paint most of my work in small resolutions even now....”

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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