Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to finish up the night interior painting by adding reflections according to the color of the light sources. We won’t see translucency here because the light sources aren’t strong enough for this effect to be visible in the skin, however, we could see light going through the clothes if one of the light sources was situated behind the character. Notice how the reflections take on the colors of the light sources because we’re seeing that light source as we would through a very dark and fuzzy mirror. ”

In this video lesson Samuel Smith addresses the topic: Wrapping up the artificial light scene, 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

“Wrapping up the artificial light scene In this lesson, we'll go back to the indoor scene with colored lights and see how to paint reflections on the character and the environment according to the position and color of the two light sources. Let's look at that. Let's see what we can do to make this one a bit more believable. Again, I'm making a layer on top of everything and my Eyedropper is in All Layers, so that I can just paint on top of everything. We can use this white shirt to see what color the light is. Let's take that and make it brighter, a bit more saturated. I was saying maybe th...”

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Course summary for: Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
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• 30956 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 22m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration