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How I approach painting Magic and VFX in illustrations!  This is a topic that's really close to my heart since my first job in the game industry was as a vfx artist and I have spent A LOT of time looking at effects.  Here is my fairly simple approach to painting fx in my illustrations!  I hope it helps!

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0:00 What are we Doing? 

00:40 Forces 

03:06 Design Principals to keep in mind 

06:33 Paint Shapes 

07:57 Color 

08:48 Soft Darken and Glow 

11:34 Particle Details 

12:16 Lightning Spell 

14:10 Simple Fire

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How I paint Magic and VFX in Illustrations

0:00 What are we Doing? 00:40 Forces 03:06 Design Principals to keep in mind 06:33 Paint Shapes 07:57 Color 08:48 Soft Darken and Glow 11:34 Particle Details 12:16 Lightning Spell 14:10 Simple Fire

Comments

Riss

this was so helpful! thank you so much for taking the time to make these wonderful information packed tutorials! <3

heyoceana

I love the small science explanation, super awesome and also conveniently helpful since I was just trying to draw some lightning magic :D

Deviliusdrawer

Thank you for the insights. It helped a lot more to understand layers for glow and feeling of nature <3