Karbo
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Airomed DEMO
🕑 Added 2024-02-13 00:55:18 +0000 UTCA new demo :) I'm sorry for having been slacking on those ^^; An additional one is coming very shortly to make up for it.
I picked that picture specifically because I thought the acute lighting was interesting to go by :3 Lighting in general is a wonderful tool for an artist. It defines volume, atmosphere and can set up a mood on its own. There are many great pictures that would immediately look very bland and uninteresting if you somehow removed or even just changed their lighting.
For an artist, a good trick to follow when you go about lighting is to visualize it as a liquid paint ^^ Imagine a source overflowing with that paint and splashing various surfaces. If the surface is flat, the light will bounce differently than if that surface was curved, the same if the surface is far from the source or, on contrary, just next to it etc.
Where it becomes interesting is that lighting color itself as it splashes on surfaces. For example imagine the daylight entering through a hole in the canopy of a dense forest. Immediately that light is going to splash on branches, trunks and leaves and ,as a result, will become progressively more green and brown and "carry" those colors with it.
Here the layer that is the most important for the lighting is the overlay one ( called "overlay reflect" in the PSD ). Overlay layers are very handy tools when it comes to lighting. It's a bit like the opposite equivalent of multiply layers for shading. Basically the brush strokes you are applying are going to interact directly with the layers below. So If you paint a certain, say orange, stroke on the bed it's not going to give you the same colors than if you painted that same stroke on the wall ! That property make it one of the best tool when it comes to convey dynamic lighting in my opinion :) It's something I use quite a bit In my painting pictures :3
Here are past demos if you missed them :
https://www.patreon.com/posts/navi-vore-psd-8492918
https://www.patreon.com/posts/naughty-trio-psd-7259106
https://www.patreon.com/posts/elf-nude-psd-7934617
https://www.patreon.com/posts/alluring-mouth-21587164
https://www.patreon.com/posts/neko-feast-demo-26095326
https://www.patreon.com/posts/29363562
https://www.patreon.com/posts/realization-psd-7008163
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dragons-fight-12441353
https://www.patreon.com/posts/felarya-tour-psd-14543073
https://www.patreon.com/posts/liris-maw-demo-16655991
https://www.patreon.com/posts/looming-entrance-39482042
https://www.patreon.com/posts/50711851
Comments
Karbo
Thank you ! another one is coming very soon :)
Josh Walker
Nice to see your workflow and thought process, cant wait for you to release more
