Airomed DEMO (Patreon)

A 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