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Adding shadow and lighting effects

Adding shadow and lighting effects - SketchBook Pro Tutorial

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Adding shadow and lighting effects

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Now here's another speed painting video I'm doing for you. Here I'm using my polyline select tool. I'm selecting the captain's window of my lower car, and now I'm going to add reflections. The sky reflection, the yellow of the sky. I'm going to put a streak which represents possibly the platform itself. I've put each of these elements on a separate layer. And, the reason I do that is so that I can control the opacity of each element. So you notice the streak across the grey streak was actually a black line using the marker tool, marker brush, and I reduced the opacity of that to give it a translucent look. Here I'm using my airbrush and creating some shape to the inner portion of that curve. Turning on and off my layers. Finding areas that I need to clean up. But right now I'm adding some shadow work under the portion of this car that extends out beyond the body itself. Here I'm adding in highlights and line work to delineate between the individual panes of, window on the car itself…

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