Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson you will learn how I apply a simple light and shadow layer to the painting, I want to get the colours of my lights and shadows established here quickly so that I don’t spend too much time in the render stage looking for light and shadow values. This will also tell us if the lighting and colour of the image is still the right one to go with. ”

In this video lesson Matt Sanz addresses the topic: Establish the Shadow and Light 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration. Learn how to create conceptual story-driven illustrations for video games and animation.

Partial transcription of the video

“Establish the Shadow and Light In this lesson we'll learn how to identify the lights and shadows within a scene, picking the appropriate colour and value and beginning to form the shapes we established in the last scene. Let's dive in. First I'll show you I colour coordinate the layers here, because in a larger illustration layers can get a bit out of control, so keep track of them as best you can. We have red here, which indicates the robot and the boy. The orange are the puddles and the floor. The yellow is the casket and the flowers and these three here don't really need colour 'cause th...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (194)
• 5484 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 37m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration