Digital Painting for 2D Illustration
Establish the Shadow and Light 2
A course by Matt Sanz , Visual Development Artist
About the video: Establish the Shadow and Light 2
Overview
“Let's wrap up the light and shadow work.”
In this video lesson Matt Sanz addresses the topic: Establish the Shadow and Light 2, 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 You'll get a bit of ambient occlusion at the bottom here where two objects meet and the light can't get into it. Bounce light is bouncing all over the place all of the time. And like I mentioned with the ambient light, it's getting to all corners at once, that's very ambient. Ambient occlusion meaning the shadows are oppressed in those tight corners. Underneath here this was a kind of a concave... little engraving, before the larger top part of this casket. And within that you would have light bouncing and depleting and bouncing and bouncing as it gets into th...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Matt Sanz
A course by Matt Sanz
Matt Sanz is a visual development artist specializing in video games and animation. Based in the UK, his freelance work as a 2D artist and creative director has led him to develop unique visual concepts for a wide range of clients, including BOB, Friday Sundae, IGG, Amazon Games, and more.
Matt graduated with a degree in Game Design and accepted a position as Lead Concept Artist for a studio in China shortly after, opening up a wide range of international opportunities. You can find Matt’s work online and at Artstation.
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