Light and Color Study: Night Scene
In this collection of lessons, we will study the of light on color while painting a night scene. Software required: Photoshop CS5 and up.
What you'll learn
In this collection of lessons, we will study the of light on color while painting a night scene. Throughout the process of painting this color concept, we'll focus on various aspects of light and color at night. After we've spent a little time setting up are composition, we'll get things started by choosing the colors for the sky in our image. Here we'll learn why colors change so much at night. We'll also learn about choosing both key and fill lights for our scene. Some of the other topics we will address while working through this painting are things like atmospheric perspective, reflected light, cast shadows, and form shadows as well as the interaction between colored lights. After completing this course, you should have a better idea of how to choose color for a night time image. Software required: Photoshop CS5 and up.
Table of contents
- Setting up the Composition 7m
- Setting the Mood of Our Scene 9m
- Building up the Composition 13m
- Painting the Silhouette for Our Floating Island 8m
- Accounting for Atmospheric Interference in the Composition 13m
- Adding a Body of Water 11m
- Continuing to Work on the Water 10m
- Painting Background and Midground Shadows 14m
- Painting Background and Midground Highlights 11m
- Painting Foreground Highlights 11m
- Adding a Sense of Scale to the Image 14m
- Lighting the Island 11m
- Adding Spotlights to the Island 10m
- Adding Additional Secondary Light Sources 12m
- Adding Clouds and Fog to Our Scene 9m
- Detailing the Moon and Final Touch Ups 11m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more