21-draw Mastering Lighting & Shading Download

Light plays a major role in enhancing images, drawing the viewer in to another world.

In this course, Aveline breaks down all the essential principles of light right here and teaches you hands-on techniques to implement them into your digital illustrations. She will guide you step by step in creating the same illustration four times—each time using a different kind of lighting set-up: Sunny Day, Overcast Day, Sunset and Magical Night.

This course is geared towards both beginner and intermediate artists who want to discover how light works, use it in their illustrations and learn new techniques.

Lesson 1

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.

Lesson 2

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.

Lesson 3

You can tell so much about a character and overall mood of a piece from the lighting and color. Aveline demonstrates this with examples, discussing the meaning of color and how to make good color choices in your artwork.

Lesson 4

Practice time! Join Aveline in creating the same image using 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.