Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
Ambient light
A course by Sergio Edwards , Illustrator
About the video: Ambient light
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you about ambient light as a basic lighting element, that is, without direct light.”
In this video lesson Sergio Edwards addresses the topic: Ambient light, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture. Learn how to give a 3D look to your illustrations with light, shadow, and color techniques using Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ambient light In this lesson we will work on the ambient light of our illustration. Ambient lighting in a scene it is basic lighting without direct light. Therefore, the shadows are all soft. The clearest example is a cloudy day like here. Here we do not see any hard shadow, we see that the sun is not hitting anywhere especially, but all the light is distributed along with shadows gently throughout the scene. And that, we will do it here. And to create this lighting, we will use a soft brush with opacity not too high, brushes like this or like this. I prefer to use a brush that has more inf...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Volume and Texture
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
Sergio Edwards
A course by Sergio Edwards
Sergio Edwards is a freelance illustrator and his work environment is mainly Adobe Photoshop, where he makes 2D graphics, painting them to give them a 3D look. He works especially in the world of advertising, where he creates colorful campaigns with expressive characters for agencies such as BBDO, Y&R, MullenLowe, and more.
He has been an illustrator for nearly 3 years, a discipline he learned while he was an art director at an advertising agency. He started out making sketches to send to Cannes, the most important advertising festival in the world. Then, he started to make the complete illustrations, several of which have been shortlisted in said festival.
Sergio has worked for clients from China, Hong Kong, the United States, Colombia, Chile, India, Greece, England, Israel, and Chile, among others; the vast majority of them within the advertising sector.
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