Lighting Principles for Digital Painting

Learn how to adapt your digital illustrations to a series of natural and artificial lighting conditions on Photoshop

• Introduction
• Preparation and Theory
• Let’s Paint!
• Details, Reflections and Translucency
• Final project

Mastering light is a skill that has fascinated artists and illustrators throughout history, for its unparalleled capacity to infuse an art piece with realism and define its atmosphere. Samuel Smith describes his fascination with light as more of an obsession, constantly analyzing his surroundings to understand how it works and apply it to his art. He has worked as a visual development artist for animations on many commercials, TV shows, and two feature films, including Klaus at SPA Studios and another upcoming animated film from Illumination Studios.

In this course, Samuel shows you how to stimulate light into your work using a logical methodology that he developed over the last two years and Adobe Photoshop to apply his simple process to five different light settings. Understand how light behaves and how it affects the elements in your work to quickly resolve any light situation.

• About me
• Influences
• What we will do in the course?
• Workspace and brushes
• Soft light Vs Hard light
• Exposure, reflections and translucency
• Preparing the drawing
• A Sunny Day - Part 1
• A Sunny Day - Part 2
• A Cloudy Day
• A Starry Night
• A Room Under Colored Light
• A Sunny Room
• Wrapping up the sunny scene
• Wrapping up the artificial light scene
• Lighting Principles for Digital Painting