Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach
Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 2
A course by Julien Schleiffer , Graphic Illustrator, Animator, and Concept Artist
Joined March 2021
About the video: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 2
Overview
“You will learn how to give more character to the light in your image. Then I will teach you how to add more details to your character. Remember that small details can play an important role.”
In this video lesson Julien Schleiffer addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 2, 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 I will come and give some accents or try to give some clarity in the lower left part of the image. We work with the idea of giving more character to this light. For that, I will try to clarify a little what is going on there. The idea in our image, whatever the stage, is not to forget that we can always come back and readjust elements. I realize that my central character could have a slightly more dynamic position which could give a bit of this almost falling-forward effect. Here is on a very small detail like that, it can really help by looking befor...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach
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Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Julien Schleiffer
A course by Julien Schleiffer
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.
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