Lighting and Color for Digital Portraits in Photoshop

Capture mood and atmosphere in your artwork with lighting and color techniques

• Introduction
• Color and Lighting
• Your Final Project
• Finishing and Enhancing the Portrait
• Final project

Color and lighting are an artist’s best ally when it comes to capturing a mood or concept. Artist Karmen Loh, also known as Bearbrickjia, has mastered the art of capturing dream-like hues and halos in her portraits using Photoshop. In this course, she shows you how to tell your story through the use of color and lighting to visually enhance your digital artwork.

This is Karmen Loh’s second course on Domestika. In her first course, she teaches the basics of creating a fantasy portrait on Photoshop by sharing her step-by-step method. This course is the ideal sequel for those who enjoyed her first course, as well as anyone who wants to give their artwork a sense of magic and wonder through lighting and color. Are you ready to delve into Bearbrickjia’s ethereal portrait universe?

• Introduction
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Colors and Mood
• Lighting on Portrait
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 1
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 2
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 3
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 4
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 5
• Demo Exercise (Color and Lightings) 6
• Set a Theme and Collect References
• Sketch 1
• Sketch 2
• Sketch 3
• Applying Basic Colors and Lighting 1
• Applying Basic Colors and Lighting 2
• Applying Basic Colors and Lighting 3
• Applying Basic Colors and Lighting 4
• Rendering 1
• Rendering 2
• Rendering 3
• Rendering 4
• Rendering 5
• Rendering 6
• Enhance Light and Add Glow 1
• Enhance Light and Add Glow 2
• Enhance Light and Add Glow 3
• Enhance Light and Add Glow 4
• Enhance Light and Add Glow 5
• Exporting Files
• Lighting and Color for Digital Portraits in Photoshop