Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll see how sunlight comes in through a window and bounces around a room creating a very warm feeling. This is one of my favorite lighting situations and can be very fun to paint. Pay close attention to the way I paint the soft lights (bounced light and diffused skylight) on the walls, floor, and ceiling. These are key elements to making the scene feel three-dimensional.”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: A Sunny Room, 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 room Now let's brighten things up and paint this room under a nice, sunny atmosphere. We'll expose for shadow to really emphasize how bright and vivid the light is. Let's see how that works. The first thing to do, of course, as usual, is make the Multiply layer for each element of the scene. We're gonna use a warm color. That is because the light that's gonna come in is gonna bounce around the room and create this warm atmosphere. I'm using a very warm color here. On the right side of this character, he's gonna get the influence from that window, which is the sky color. I'm looking ...”

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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (1365)
• 30962 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 22m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration