Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Light and reflections
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Light and reflections
Overview
“Now that you've added atmosphere to the illustration I'm going to show you how to put lights and reflections in a coherent way. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Light and reflections, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters. Learn to design expressive characters in Photoshop by focusing on traits, poses, framing, composition, color, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“Light and reflections Now that I've added the mood, I'll explain how to consistently put lights and reflections. Now that we've put all the mood into our character, we just have to start working on the rims and points of light. The rim light is essentially the light. In my illustrations I almost always put this kind of line of light at the points where an object or a character is, in fact, struck by the main light. In reality, this line of light we will only see it when something is backlit, but sometimes I in the illustrations, perhaps a little in realism, to emphasize some elements. That'...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration
Alessia Trunfio
A course by Alessia Trunfio
Alessia Trunfio is an illustrator who specializes in children's books. Her love of drawing as a child motivated her to pursue the arts in college, studying a degree in film, followed by an animation course at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Rome. Soon after, she started working at an animation studio as a background artist.
Thanks to sharing her fanart and other works on platforms like Behance, she built a reputation and found success as an illustrator, turning it into a full-blown career. Over the years, she's collaborated on illustration and book cover projects with some of the biggest names in publishing, including Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Capstone, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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