Illustration: Compositing Techniques

Add flexibility to your illustration process and achieve high-quality results by exploring digital compositing—combining layers of visual information into a single, adjustable illustration. In this course, comic illustrator and digital artist Daniel Lieske shows you how to bring your digital illustrations to the next level. Daniel demonstrates how to split objects and background elements into separate visual components—like light, color, and reflections—and how to use these elements in your final composite. This hands-on course goes beyond classic illustration techniques to help you expand your creative process and even handle rendering of challenging lighting effects including ambient light, sunlight, bounce light, and specular highlights.

Learning objectives
The basic concepts of digital compositing
Preparing the right preliminary drawing
Creating and using mask layers
Painting and adjusting different light sources
Coloring through local color adjustments
Rendering highlights and reflections
Creating and refining the final composite