Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
Adding Lighting
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: Adding Lighting
Overview
“In this lesson, let’s add some lighting and take a look at the way that the addition of different edges on your shadows can affect the form. ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: Adding Lighting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination. Learn how to translate people and places from your mind into lively scenes on a page.
Partial transcription of the video
“Adding Lighting Now we're gonna add some lighting and we're gonna talk about edges. Let's get into it. You're bored of me saying it, but zoom out and see the whole image. Do a little assessment of where you think it's at. I'll add one layer. Maybe two, but one for now. We'll turn on multiply. That means is that anything that you draw on a multiply layer will go on top of what's below it. We won't be drawing over those figures. I selected a bigger brush, using a light grey. Anything we draw, it will make it darker. It won't draw over. That's our starting point, one Multiply layer. We're talk...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Tom Fox
A course by Tom Fox
Tom Fox is a figure drawing instructor and storyboard artist who has worked in the animation industry for more than ten years. He studied zoology at university but, frustrated by the lack of practical skills involved, decided to take up drawing alongside his studies. He spent the next five years honing his craft through short courses and online resources and has worked for Universal Studios, Aardman Animations, The BBC, and Axis Animation.
As well as working as a professional storyboard artist, Tom focuses on reducing complex subjects like perspective and anatomy into an easy-to-follow process for teaching online.
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