PS Tips: PS Create light and shadow staggered magic character illustration

PS Tips: PS Create light and shadow staggered magical character illustration. today's foreign fine translation course will take a portrait as an example, describes how to draw in Ps and painting theme echoes of the lighting effect. Let's take a look at the final effect diagram in the tutorial example below.

Final effect Diagram

Author's readme

I think that when learning how to paint or improve painting skills, you need to consider various factors that affect the effect of painting. One of the most important factors affecting portrait painting is that light can bring vigor to characters, shape and proportions of characters. In particular, light and color are interrelated, so the painting process to consider how the two match to show the ideal painting effect, and through different lighting effects to create a different character story.

If you need to draw the lighting effect is very complex, you can find similar pictures as a reference. In the beginning of the overall concept of design, we must think of the layout of the light source, which can lay a good foundation for painting, help speed up the drawing, save time.

For this illustration, the author's idea is to let the light appear magical and mysterious, and through the high contrast to create a contrast between the effects of a particularly obvious. Considering that this is a portrait illustration, the author believes that the focus should be on the face, and the color of the eye should be the focus, the character expression will pass out a dangerous signal.

In order to achieve this effect, the author will use two light source: The main light is bright and cold, mainly in the face of the characters, secondary light is warm, dispersed, mainly in the background.

At the same time, I try to use a variety of colors as a supplement to the light, so as to balance the final effect of the scene. In the beginning of painting, the use of large color and light color block, and try to control the size of the file, so you can quickly complete the composition, if you need to modify or adjust, will be very easy. Let's see how the author finishes the illustration.

1. Character Concept Design

The first thing about painting is to quickly find the design concept and overall composition. The author conceived the picture is a magical style male role, expression indifference, a group of crows around him. After the establishment of the concept, the author began to use rough pencil lines and scattered colors, roughly outline the completion of the character conceptual design. The author thinks that we need to do the whole color scheme before we start to paint, and design the main light source from the top of the scene.

Figure 01

2. Choose the original color

After browsing through the sketch, the author began to choose his color scheme, the first choice of color is very saturated, just to separate the elements, to minimize the impact on other colors, at the beginning of the time to try to keep each element concise. The author thinks, the light source is not anxious to draw first, at this time the focal point still is in the character body. As there is no need for more detail characterization, the use of a round soft brush can be.

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3. Redesign the composition

Consider this illustration will be a portrait, I think the characters around the need for more space, so decided to cut the image, and then the characters around the environment to expand. For composition, the use of space is very important, as people need to breathe. The author gently increases the main light on the face of the character, and then increases the warm light in the background diagonally, which is for the sake of adding more dynamic to the composition.

Figure 03

4. Shaping facial Features

The following begins to shape the facial features of the characters. The author chooses the same soft brush, but the brush shape is dynamically set to 0%. The author adds some red to the eyelids of the characters and adds very pale purple around the eyes. The author introduces that he likes to use these two colors as the base tones of the skin, because they can bring a very real feeling to any skin color.

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