Light and Color Manual - 2nd Edition

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This manual is included free in our Digital Illustration for Beginners course. If you want to get more out of this document and learn our tips and secrets for using digital tools, we recommend taking the course. Along with this manual, we'll delve deeper into the concepts of light and color for a more complete experience.

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What is it about?

Theoretical-practical digital manual created by our illustrator Jordan Alvarado (check out his Instagram to learn more about his work: jor_andthebox ).

This manual was created to provide a series of practical exercises accompanied by simple explanations to help you understand the fundamentals of light and color and make it easier for you to apply them in your work.

Although the exercises are primarily designed to be completed in a digital illustration program, much of the knowledge is useful and transferable to other techniques outside of digital. Adobe Photoshop was originally used for the exercises, but the manual provides generalized explanations to make it easier for you to find the tools in your program.

How can this manual help you?

 This digital manual focuses on knowledge of Light and Color, where you will improve your skills to:

• Give better volume.
• Shading and illuminating from observation and imagination.
• Apply the color in a better way.
• Have a sharper eye to study your surroundings.

Please note that this is not a manual for learning how to use your illustration software. Therefore, it is recommended that you understand the basics of your program, in addition to having basic drawing skills to get the most out of it. However, through the exercises, you can significantly improve your use of the program as long as you practice regularly.

If you want to learn how to use your illustration software, such as Light and Color, we recommend that you check out our course

Digital Illustration for Beginners.

Updates in this 2nd edition

• Deep dive into the Volume section.
• Deep dive into the Shadow Projection and Lighting section.

• An extra example has been added to the Advanced Lighting section.
• Added an extra example in the Color section: Gradient Map and Blending Modes.
• Minor changes in text writing.

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