Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll explain what kind of drawing you should prepare as a base for the painting exercises to come next. Remember that the point is not to make a pretty illustration, but to learn through easy-to-replicate exercises. The things to focus on are basic volumes, big simple shapes, no details. Remember you can’t learn to paint complex shapes without learning to paint simple ones first!”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: Preparing the drawing, 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

“Preparing the drawing We're done with the theory. Let's talk about the character we'll paint. It should be a simple character made of basic volumes that you're gonna pose on a very minimalistic background. Let's check it out. The drawing I need you to prepare for this course and that you're gonna paint later on needs to be a simple character posed on top of a very simple background. The point is not to make a pretty picture or interesting composition, the point is to make something that is simple to paint over and over. This is why I don't want you to include any small details, because they...”

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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