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Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

A Sunny Day - Part 1

A course by Samuel Smith , Visual Development Artist

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Audio: English

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About the video: A Sunny Day - Part 1

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll now paint our first lighting scenario, a bright sunny day. This seemed like a good place to start as it is one of the most common scenes people want to illustrate. We will go through painting ambient light (skylight), direct light (sunlight), and bounced light. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Sunny Day - Part 1, 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

“A sunny day When painting, it's very important that we make every decision consciously. For this reason, I'll show you a method to apply different light sources one by one to your painting. We'll start by looking at a sunny day, I feel this is a good place to start. We're gonna analyze which light sources are influencing the scene and the character. Let's go, let's paint. First thing, I'm gonna save this as a new document and then I'll delete what I don't need. I don't need the layers for the color of the interior and I can combine those two if I need to see this. The first step would be to...”

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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.