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Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

A Sunny Day - Part 2

A course by Samuel Smith , Visual Development Artist

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About the video: A Sunny Day - Part 2

Overview

“We will continue working on our sunny day scene, but we will see what happens if we change the light direction and expose for light instead of shadows. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Sunny Day - Part 2, 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 But what if we want to have the light coming from the front? Surely we're not gonna just do this because then everything is overblown and it doesn't make any sense. So the way we're gonna do this... Let me just save this as a new file. Let's delete the sunlight in both. Now what we're gonna do is take this ambient light layer, the Multiply layer, I'm gonna remove all the traces of bounce light and warmth. I'm gonna go back to the normal shadow situation, no light. I'm going to press Command + U for Hue/Saturation and darken everything. What we're doing here is changing the expos...”

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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.