Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach

Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 1

A course by Julien Schleiffer , Graphic Illustrator, Animator, and Concept Artist

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724 students

Audio: French

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About the video: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 1

Overview

“You will then move on to defining the light source and detailing its interactions with the scene.”

In this video lesson Julien Schleiffer addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach. Learn how to unleash your creativity through the practice of sketching and create beautifully illustrated stories with Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance All the color information is in place. I will focus on the light and the characters. We have made good progress on the color and the various elements. This part will focus on light management. We will define the origin of the source. In this case, the sun. We defined that from the start. The question is: where is the sun? We could put it between the buildings to have a backlighting effect on the two characters or completely behind to have a total backlight. In this case, the characters should be darkened with a border of light to cut out or reveal det...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach

Level: Beginner
95% positive reviews (37)
724 students
5 units
22 lessons (5h 27m)
5 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Julien Schleiffer

A course by Julien Schleiffer

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Graphic Illustrator, Animator, and Concept Artist

From a young age, Julien has enjoyed observing people and their interaction with the urban landscape and embodying all this in his drawings. He taught himself illustration and digital painting after studying Applied Arts at the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, and later, a Master's.

As his work began gaining popularity online, he started to collaborate with clients such as Stella Artois, the SNCF, and Linkoffice. He has also worked alongside Quentin Bailleux on a film that pays tribute to a famous video game. Passionate about the digital world, Julien loves the imperfections in his drawings and recreating them using his graphics tablet.