TUTORIAL VIDEO // simple tricks for lighting & mood (Patreon)

It’s time for this month’s tutorial, and this one is on simple tricks for lighting and mood! Basically I’ll show you guys how I add lighting to my art when I’ve already picked the base colors. Hopefully what you’ll get from it is that you can use some simple shortcuts / tricks to push your art towards a specific mood. 

Quick disclaimer: I use the term ‘rim light’ very often, sometimes a bit gratuitously because what I really mean is just a sharp lighting source that casts a distinct highlight on the character. I think of it as a ‘rim light’ because it defines the edge of the character, but it’s not always the right term to use - apologies for that! Hope you still get what I mean when watching it!

Some stuff I mention in the video:

• The character I drew is basically a re-take of this one: https://blog.loish.net/post/85827164568/manga-style-art-i-know-this-is-a-contested-term?is_liked_post=1 I just kinda felt like drawing her, hehe!

• In order to draw her, I used principles that are explained in more detail in some previous tutorials. They are the construction tutorial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-video-38377684 and the color choices tutorial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-colors-39277902 

• The brushes I used for the lighting are from Shyioon Kim’s ink brush set, which you can find here: https://gumroad.com/l/shiyoonink Any textured brush works good for this technique though!

Hope you find this useful and can implement these tricks in your digital art! Next week I’ll be doing a procreate tutorial, so if there’s anything specific you want to learn about that, drop it in the comments and I’ll try to implement it!