Lighting Principles for Digital Painting
A Cloudy Day
A course by Samuel Smith , Visual Development Artist
About the video: A Cloudy Day
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll learn how to paint light on a cloudy day, which means there will be no direct light. This is one of the trickiest things to paint because it has to be very subtle. Do not underestimate this lighting situation, it is very tricky to get it right and might take a lot of practice. The things to focus on are very small areas of darkness, warm colors in the dark spots, very soft transitions, and generally low contrast. And ¡NO HARD SHADOWS! ”
In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Cloudy Day, 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 cloudy day In this lesson, we're gonna talk about painting a cloudy day. It doesn't look like much, but this is one of the hardest situations to paint because there is no direct light, which means no hard shadows to describe the volume. Let's see how it works. I want to paint a cloudy day with completely overcast lighting. All I need to do starting from this version... Let me save this as Cloudy. I just have to delete the layer with direct light. Then I'm gonna go here and remove all traces of the bounce lights, all the warmth. I'm gonna erase that and go back to normal sky color. And may...”
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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
Samuel Smith
A course by Samuel Smith
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.
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