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Aveline is a visual development artist and comic book artist living in Belgium.
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Learn how to study light, shadow and colors from photo referencesHow to create various cool lighting effects digitallyUnderstand how reflection on different objects worksHow to manipulate lighting effects with different blend modes in ProcreateColor attributes and how to create meaning with colorsMaster shading techniques and the use of Procreate toolsCreate the same image in day light, sunset, overcast setting and in a magical atmosphereLight plays a major role in enhancing images, drawing the viewer in to another world, another time and another place.
When starting out, Aveline was fascinated by how artists that she admired used light so effectively, creating stunning artwork. However, trying to figure it out on her own was a long, slow process, having to scour the internet and dig through books. But, good news!—you don’t have to go through all that. Aveline breaks down all the essential principles of light right here and teaches you hands-on techniques to implement them into your digital illustrations.
In this course, she will guide you step by step in creating the same illustration four times—each time using a different kind of lighting. Intrigued? Well, that’s just the summary!
1+ Hours of on-demand videos
3 Assignments (PDF)
Layered Photoshop filesLayered Procreate files
4 Reference images1 Line art images
List of recommended brushes
Certificate of Completion
Get to know your teacher, Aveline, in this video as she talks a bit about herself and her personal journey with art.
She’ll also give you a short summary of all the cool things you’ll learn in this course.
Get to know your teacher, Aveline, in this video as she talks a bit about herself and her personal journey with art.
In this video you will get a short summary of all the cool things you’ll learn in this course.
The first step to painting light digitally is to observe how it works in real life.
In this lesson, Aveline takes you through several examples of cool movie stills, breaking the light dynamics in each one and explaining the principles of how it all works. She discusses ambient and basic color, diffuse and direct light sources and reflections on various materials.
Watch how Aveline breaks down and analyzes several movie stills and other pictures in terms of lighting and shading, as well as explains the theoretical concepts like: Diffused light, Direct light and more.
Discover all the technical details of Aveline’s illustration process, such as what brushes and shading techniques she uses and exactly how blend modes work and why they are so useful.
You’ll be able to paint faster and enjoy it even more with the help of these nifty tools.
For Aveline, color and light are inseparable—a language that contains as many messages as its various shades. You can tell so much about a character and overall mood from these two elements.
In this lesson, Aveline demonstrates this with examples, discussing the meaning of color and how to make good color choices in your artwork.
Practice time! Aveline will walk you through creating the same image in four unique lighting scenarios including daytime, nighttime, overcast sky and a magical setting, resulting in four completely different effects.
You can follow along using the available exercise files in PSD/Procreate formats.
Congrats on completing this course! Bid farewell to Aveline in this video and find out where you can share the artwork you created with her and other students. 🙂
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Haha :) thanks for the great review Jane! And thank you for pointing out the "cushion bar" mistake :) You're absolutely right, it should be "gaussian blur". The subtitles have been updated now :)
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Aveline is a visual development artist and comic book artist living in Belgium.She currently works as a freelance concept artist/character designer for various clients in the field of publishing, animation and video games. Her clients include Simon and Schuster and Skydance Media.
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