Illustration: Compositing Techniques

Achieve more complex results in your illustrations with digital compositing. Learn how to merge visual components like light, color, and reflections into a final illustration.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Introduction to Compositing

• Composing light sources
• Composing color
• Composing highlights

2. Illustrating the Composite Layers

• Preliminary drawing
• Creating mask layers
• Using the mask layers
• Painting the ambient light
• Adjusting the ambient light
• Painting the sunlight, part 1: Head
• Painting the sunlight, part 2: Body
• Painting the sunlight, part 3: Background
• Adjusting the sunlight
• Introducing color
• Rendering the figure
• Rendering the sky

3. Finishing Touches and Variations

• Adding bounce light
• Adding specular highlights
• Compositing variations

Conclusion

• Farewell to the audience