Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach

Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 3

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

95% positive reviews (37)

724 students

Audio: French

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About the video: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 3

Overview

“You will see how to finish indicating the light and shadow elements on your characters to balance your image. At the end, everything will be ready for you to focus on the interaction between your two characters.”

In this video lesson Julien Schleiffer addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows: How to Find Balance 3, 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 One last detail, we will try to make this red trail coincide on the ground. With the drag on the plant in relation to this plant. The point is that I can wear a shadow of this plant, maybe exaggerate it a bit to give depth to this image. I made a rough selection. I put myself under and create a new layer and there, I draw a layer which could be its shadow projected on the wall. I think it might work. It's not bad, I will try to put that part behind my characters. I can't bring it down because I have my yellow layer going behind it. I will try to selec...”

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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.