Digital Painting: How Light Works

In this course you will learn how to paint light into your scene:

1) Starting with Local colors, we decide which colors appears to our eyes and how we would normally describe them.

2) Later on we continue with light and shadow, making decisions of how the Temperature of the color shifts when interacting with light versus shadows.

3) Then we apply the secret ingredient the most beginners misses, we introduce the Reflected light to our scene. making the the painting feel more lively and sense of atmosphere.

Create along with me on any painting software, i will be using the simplest tools to deliver the idea in best way i can.

* i encourage you to work in stages as i show in the examples

* please upload your progress to this course page so i can comment and critique, make a faster progress

The abilities you will acquire finishing this course:

1) The courage of mixing colors and avoiding stuck on "the right color"

2) The theory behind Warm light and cool light in nature (also warm light & cool shadows) and vice versa.

3) The confidence to harmonize colors in other way you wouldn't expect

4) a Solid understanding of Color temperature

What can you do with it later?

After finishing this course you will be able to paint more engaging scenes into work, have a professional level grasp of how light behaves, and a good start of this vast world of light and color in images, photographs, concept art, animation, basically every visual language there is out there - you will be able to see what feels right or wrong.

you will be able to create mood and more lifelike scenes that will capture your audience believability