Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process
Basic Lighting 1
A course by Gabriel Gomez , Freelance Artist and Animator
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
“Lighting is a very important step to establish a mood. In this lesson, I will show you how to quickly establish some lighting conditions. Life, it's a whole subject unto itself. And we could do hours and hours of lessons just about life. Because light, it's a very key element of painting anything. Light is going to give you a lot of information. You know, the time of day, the time of year, the warmth, how cold it feels. It's going to also help you define volume because you can see here, everything feels flat, but once we're going to start lighting it, we're going to put everything in volume...”
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Course summary for: Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process
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Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Gabriel Gomez
A course by Gabriel Gomez
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.
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