Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process

Basic Lighting 1

A course by Gabriel Gomez , Freelance Artist and Animator

98% positive reviews (191)

5,099 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Basic Lighting 1

Overview

“Lighting is essential for creating a mood. In this lesson I will show you how to establish light conditions.”

In this video lesson Gabriel Gomez addresses the topic: Basic Lighting 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process. Learn how to sketch your ideas and work efficiently to create a digital illustration from start to finish.

Partial transcription of the video

“Basic Lighting Lighting is a very important step to establish a mood. In this lesson, I will show you how to establish lighting conditions. Light is a whole subject unto itself and we could do hours of lessons on light because it is a key element in painting. Anything light is going to give you a lot of information. The time of day, the time of year, the warmth, how cold it feels. It is also going to help you define the volume because as you can see, everything feels flat, Once we start lighting it, everything will be in volume. For example, this tree. Now, it is flat. When we start lightin...”

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Course summary for: Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (191)
5099 students
4 units
20 lessons (4h 13m)
11 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Gabriel Gomez

A course by Gabriel Gomez

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Freelance Artist and Animator

Gabriel Gomez is a French freelance artist and animator. As a child, he was always exploring new hobbies and interests and spent years attending different art classes. He later went on to study illustration at Saint-Luc art school, where he met a community of artists and began experimenting with painting in Photoshop. Whilst studying there, he was given the opportunity to work as a background painter for The Suicide Shop and, after graduating, as head of character lighting for the movie Klaus, an experience that really kick-started his career.

Since then, he’s worked with clients including Netflix and Paramount and founded his own pre-production company, Citadel Animation. He also shares his art with over 30K followers on Instagram.