Painting Light 103 is the next step in learning after Painting Light 101 & Painting Light 102. In this third part of the trilogy Painting Light series, I finally get to the topics I am most excited about... visual storytelling with light.
In this ADVANCED class I will cover the concepts of beauty, composition, visual storytelling, character lighting, environment lighting, advanced color theory, color keys, and final polish of illustrations. The course is meant for artists who already know how to paint and understand light and color basics, and will take your art to new levels.
You'll Learn How to Craft
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Strong story-focused compositions
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Potent character lighting
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Story-based environment lighting
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Advanced color theory and application
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Multi-shot color keys and color scripts
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Refined polished key art
What You'll Get
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13+ hours of video lecture and demonstrations
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Assignments and downloads
Chapter 01 - Composition
Learn to compose story-focused key art while understanding perspective, composition, focal point and more.
Chapter 02 - Shape and Form
Learn to craft compelling shape and form focused on character lighting. There's some really cool stuff in this chapter with fun downloads.
Chapter 03 - Contrast Depth and Separation
Learn to use light and dark to draw your eye in a frame. This is advanced cinematography that I learned while making big budget movies.
Chapter 04 - Advanced Color Theory
Learn about why color theory is still theory but how to apply it anyway for appealing lighting.
Chapter 05 - Environment Lighting
Learn to add lighting to environments that is focused on advancing the story for the character within the environments. Also we'll study color keys and color scripts in this chapter. So much fun stuff!!
Chapter 06 - Final Polish
Learn how to bring it all together as highly polished illustrations / concept art.
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What You'll Learn
Composition
To me Composition is not a series of rules, but rather tools to draw the audience's eye to the focal point of the shot. I will demonstrate how to use camera, perspective, lens and more to craft a compelling image with a strong story.
Character Lighting
In Painting Light 102 the goal was believable light. Now the goal is strong lighting that really helps the viewer to understand clearly what they are looking at in all of its three dimensional glory. Since characters are the most common subject matter in shot I'll tach you lessons I learned on movie sets for how to craft the light for the best shape and form.
Advanced Cinematography
Learn how to put light into environments in a way that supports a story. It's not about making it pretty, but about making it easily understandable with a strong mood. Of course we'll also make it pretty, but with a story-first approach. I will share my years of experience from making movies and games and all of the tricks and tips that are not often taught in school but only on the job.
Multi-shot lighting
Learn to not only paint still images or single illustrations, but how to plan entire sequences with consistent and emotional lighting. Painting color scripts and color keys is not something that is widely understood, so i will delve deep into how it's done.