Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
Lighting 1
A course by Izzy Burton , Director, Artist, and Author
About the video: Lighting 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you’ll learn how to work into your image by adding lighting information to define your base block shapes better. You’ll check your values are working to draw your eye to your subject and adjust contrast accordingly. ”
In this video lesson Izzy Burton addresses the topic: Lighting 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop. Explore composition, color, and lighting to create compelling concept art inspired by photographic references.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, you'll work into your image by adding lighting information to define your base block colors better. You'll check your values to make sure that your eye is being drawn to your subject and adjust your contrast accordingly. So let's take a look at where we can get started. we now have this really great base to work on. Finally, we're going to start adding some more detail. But at this stage for me, detail is mostly defined by lighting, We're going to add obviously some more detail that isn't lighting. It's more like window panes and stuff. But we want to start like kind of brin...”
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Course summary for: Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Izzy Burton
A course by Izzy Burton
Izzy Burton is a director, artist, and author who specializes in animation and publishing. Growing up, she spent her time writing and illustrating stories, as well as filming short films with her mother’s video camera. She also had a natural ability for math and eventually went on to study computer visualization and animation, a degree that combined both her technical and creative talents, at Bournemouth University.
Since graduating first in her class and winning the Best Final Year Film award, Izzy has worked on everything from short film direction to children’s book illustrations. Most recently, she began working for Netflix Animation as a Lead Background Artist. She was also recognized as one of Animation Magazine’s Rising Stars in 2018 and has worked for clients including Cartoon Network, the BBC, McDonald's, Nickelodeon, Disney Advertising, Lego, and Penguin Random House.
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