Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

Overview

“To use light well, we must treat it like all the other elements, making sure it supports what we have already put down and effectively elevates the information in our piece. We, therefore, create a hierarchy of light, reasoned through the way our eyes inform our brains about the world. ”

In this video lesson Even Amundsen addresses the topic: Lighting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding. Explore color, texture, lighting, and layers to create memorable protagonists that tell a story with every detail.

Partial transcription of the video

“All right. So now that we're moving on from my sort of particular bailiwick, I am sketch artist first and everything else second. It's important to denote that even though I've laid out my process as clearly as I can in this course, it isn't quite as clear-cut as this. lighting, coloring, rendering. All these things have overlapping magisteria. And so there's going to be some push and some pull. But what I do try to do is to separate out these core groups of information into different steps. as part of my process. Sometimes I do coloring first, Sometimes I do lighting first, but the point i...”

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Course summary for: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

• Level: Beginner
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• 27216 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 46m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration