Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, Sorie Kim will guide you through crucial lighting techniques to enhance your sketches. You'll learn essential terms like highlights, terminator, core shadow, bounce light, and cast shadow. By understanding how light interacts with a subject and how to construct cast shadows, you'll create depth and three-dimensionality in your drawings. You'll also explore the influence of light direction and angle, allowing you to control the mood and realism of your work.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Lighting , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“So in this lesson, I'll be going over some lighting techniques that we can use to add to our sketches. First, let's go over some terminology. I'm going to be using this abstract organic shape that we looked at earlier. I'll be assigning some volume to it really quick. And let's take a look at some different aspects of lighting. First, we have our subject here, and then we're going to have a light source. So let's say we have the sun over here, and this is going to be our light source. Because our light source is coming down in this direction, on the subject, we'll see on the highest points ...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (93)
• 8785 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting