Painting Light and Form

By understanding how different light sources work, including falloff and reflections, you can paint realistic lighting and shadows in your artwork.

Understanding different light sources is key to setting mood in your paintings. Light bulbs emit light in all directions, causing falloff so distant objects look darker. The sun, being far and bright, acts as directional light with negligible falloff. Soft light happens when light scatters through translucent materials like clouds, softening shadows and creating occlusion shadows. Considering brightness, distance, direction of light sources, and reflected light helps you create realistic, vibrant artwork.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Light Sources
03:46 - Hard vs Soft
07:11 - Occlusion Shadows
09:13 - Combining Light Sources
10:24 - Reflected Light
12:42 - Practical Application
14:44 - Assignment
15:16 - Outro

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high-quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

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Editing - Hongju Lim, Sean Ramsey
Publishing - Alex Otis

Music Used with Permission Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
Additional music by Epidemic Sound

[madiko]

I always loved the light and shadow instructions by Marco Bucci, but Jon takes it even further. Thank you!

[brian]

For those curious, light fall-off is also called the Inverse Square Law.
Every time you double the distance to a light source, the apparent brightness perceived from it is reduced to a quarter of what it was.
For example, if you have a light bulb at 100 meters away from you and an apparent brightness of 100 lumens, that level of luminosity will be reduced to 25 lumens when you move to 200 meters from the light bulb.
It also applies to any mechanical wave traveling through a medium but it's most commonly used for light.

[tcg]

This is an insane episode. So much insight was provided.

[tatikoland]

Oh man, this was great. I never found a good explanation on the ambient light. Finally got it. Thank you so much guys!

[mochagatari]

I've always struggled with lighting and form (especially as someone with a very stylized art style) and this explanation of how light works is MASSIVELY helpful. I'm going to try this out next time I study. Thank you!

[giganbombshroom]

8:41 man this light and shadow lesson give me goosebump

[artJohnnyG]

this is one of the best explanation about light due to the length of this video

[gilang]

it's a 15 min video but i'm here like... 2 hrs right now. so much helping information

[chenille-wi]

My drawings are slowly improving.
I mean, I've watched tons of your videos. 😅You guys have great tips. Thank you.❤

[uperM]

thank you. this is going to be very thankful.

[tedv]

this dude have to make his own YT Channel he is so skilled

[inexistence]

On this episode of Proko: We will be learning mental ray tracing.

[Tophie]

You guys are the best! This really put things into perspective :)

[sageofmugen]

didn't expect to see Little witch academia!
thx for the lesson I will try to use light fall off more in my animations

[justatouchkajm]

ooh im learning about his in my perspective class !!!!

[desmond]

Please make an entire video about how to paint soft lighting

[paperknigth]

I wish that somewhere in the Title, Description or Video it says the name of the artist that is giving the lesson.

[LordCancerTaymanisus]

Are you sure that reflected light follows the normal reflection rule? I thought that only worked for mirror polished sourfaces and that matte ones diffuse the same way as scattering...

[ssjdevil]

I was baited by the yorick thumbnail, but I stay

[razym]

I would love to know more about the artist, but there's nothing mentioning him in the description