Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll see what happens when there is no natural light source but only artificial lights in an interior. Some things to notice here: since there is no white light source, the scene becomes very monochromatic, consisting mostly of shades of green and red, which are the colors of the light sources. We still see some local colors because the green light source isn’t pure green and has some white in it, but if it were pure green there would be no trace of the local colors anymore, as only green and red could be reflected. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Room Under Colored Light, 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 room under colored light Now we're painting an interior scene with no light coming from the outside. This means that we won't see any influence from the sun or the sky. Our scene will only be lit by different artificial light sources placed inside the room. Let's see how that affects the illustration. Let's say that this window is shut. I'd like to see what happens if we are using completely artificial light. I'm gonna remove this plant and instead let's have one of those lava lamps, because I think they're pretty fun. Anyways, the lamp is not the subject of this lesson. Let's imagine tha...”

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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