Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop
Defining Placement of Keylight
A guided course by Joel Santana
Joined April 2002
About the video: Defining Placement of Keylight
Overview
“This lesson will cover lighting. There are many ways to introduce lighting to your character but in this course, we will make that call early on in the process. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Defining Placement of Keylight, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop. Add depth, lighting, and color to transform your sketch into a vibrant, lifelike character in Photoshop..
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, we're going to talk about how we're going to position our key light. And there's a lot of ways to determine the lighting on your character. You can do it early on or later on in the process, but for this lesson, we're gonna talk about starting from the very beginning. So let's jump into lighting. I like this kind of warm background versus the dark blue. I think this kind of helps feel more like vintage kind of 60s retro kind of vibe that I wanted to go for. The white on the panda, it feels a little cool. Which seemed fine on a darker background, but now on this, it just f...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Painting, Sketching

Joel Santana
A guided course by Domestika
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