Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process

Basic Atmosphere

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 Atmosphere

Overview

“Almost as important as lighting, atmosphere is key in creating a mood for your image. In this lesson, I will show you how I work with it. ”

In this video lesson Gabriel Gomez addresses the topic: Basic Atmosphere, 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 Atmosphere Almost as important as lighting, atmosphere is key in establishing moods. In this lesson, I will show you how I do it. For the atmosphere part of this painting, It's going to be simple. The main goal is to get closer to what we had originally in the sketch in terms of values. We are going to try and get back this nice contrast between this dark and contrasting foreground, and the background with close values. It should look lighter. As you can see, if I check it in black and whites, we have the same values everywhere. In black and white, it is hard to see what we are lookin...”

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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.