Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll paint our character into a beautiful night illuminated by moonlight and a lantern. Try to have one light source more intense than the other, to bring more variety to your painting. This is an exaggeration of what nighttime looks like, so don’t hesitate to be expressive with the colors of the sky and moonlight, as long as you stay within a range of cold colors (purple to blue-green) it should feel like night time. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Starry Night, 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 starry night In this lesson, we're gonna paint the scene under a night sky illuminated by moonlight and a lantern. It's important to notice here that the process is actually the same, we're only changing the value of light. It's gonna be much darker in general, but the process is the same as a sunny day. Let's see how it works. First thing, let's make the sky very dark blue. Maybe something like this. And I'm gonna add a slight gradient so it looks better. We can add a few stars. The first thing to do is to bring everyone to the right ambient light. This is a cheat because in real life, a...”

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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
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• 30957 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 22m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration