Storytelling with Light

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Pro concept artist Dom Lay teaches how you can create images that tell a story and have an emotional force behind them using dynamic lighting. Some of what you’ll learn in this digital painting demo is why lighting impacts storytelling, how dynamic lighting is used to influence mood regardless of how rendered the art is and tips for how to creatively apply lighting to your composition. Understanding light is a fundamental skill for artists and this demo will help you further understand it.
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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.
CREDITS:
Artist | Instructor - Dom Lay (www.artstation.com/dlartistry)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokopenko.com),
Production Assistance - Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com)
Editing - Sierra Tillman, Sean Ramsey
Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

[@ProkoTV]

Thanks Dom! You can follow his work at instagram.com/layeredpainter

[@binimk8072]

Oooookkk

[@andreapiredda8016]

Bro recently your guests seems energyless. This one in particular spoke with a very depressed voice

[@art_renae]

@@andreapiredda8016 That may simply be the way they talk. Not everyone has a loud and energetic voice.

[@leveledfeats]

Thank you so much for having me on here! It was an awesome experience working on this :)

[@hamiltonsgood6597]

Your Artworks are beyond amazing! Thankyou for teaching us how you apply storytelling to your artwork, it helped alot!

[@leveledfeats]

@@hamiltonsgood6597 Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@LieslHuddleston]

That was awesome, nicely done and beautiful artwork!

[@kopirator3325]

hey what program do you use?

[@MarcLaisneARTVenture]

@@kopirator3325 it’s photoshop

[@purplehelm8853]

I just watched him make a digital painting look just like a watercolor painting right before my eyes! That was absolutely incredible!!

[@owlsomeclipse]

The realism of those scenes...like a dream unfolding before your eyes.

[@Couple-O-Ghosts]

It was a privilege being able to follow along with your process. Thank you.

[@danielawesome36]

I don't understand what I feel when I look at these paintings.
They're all so... _dreamy._
It hurts, for some reason.

[@taylerolivasart]

So cool to see Dom on here! His book is definitely one of my favorites in my library.

[@johnny-mnemonic13]

U mean in my book?

[@devyadav3273]

I am 18 and till now I have only drawn with graphite. Now I am moving to paints. Proko has helped me a lot in my journey. The intro is very nostalgic. Looking forward to see more painting tutorials on proko.

[@varuntulsyan2558]

I have been trying to find resources to learn dynamic lighting. This is a godsend! More videos on lighting please, Proko!

[@ok_listen]

I love these shorter videos, they're more enjoyable to watch in my opinion. Thank you!

[@jessej071]

Really cool to see how this painting takes shape! Love the workflow, will have to try and adopt some of these methods. Thanks for sharing, Dom!

[@mf--]

Included more for photo bashing than I expected.

[@patriciacoogan5076]

Amazing. Such a delight to watch. I do watercolor medium and learned so much from your explanations. Thanks!

[@caelan1470]

im about to colour a uni assignment so this came out with perfect timing for me! thanks for the education!

[@georgejurukovski]

Amazing work Dom. Very insightful. Thanks for the great video.

[@EdwinPallens]

Omg this is the most simple and comprehensive instruction

[@ahlamamr4659]

I really love this and the walk through of the process is really insightful. My main goal when I paint is to make the viewer feel something and create a mood and an atmosphere. I also really love how you got inspired from a traditional medium and applied these techniques or their ideas digitally and how you used diffrent features in photoshop that maybe weren’t essentially created for painting.

[@YuraPericle]

Super cool and useful tutorial! Finally I understood how this kind of art is creating!

[@michiel-vdheuvel]

Great video. I didn't know about the ctrl-alt-shift-e hotkey. Very useful!

[@AmmarYaqoub1020]

I'm following this artist on Instagram, very inspiring. Thanks for sharing the talent ❤

[@andrewcheng2852]

Thanks for the knowledge brother!

[@filipemecenas]

Very dramatic light , !!!! ❤️

[@santipoggi]

nice work 🙌🏼🤯 and also the lofi proko songs in the background 🎶

[@martacasagrande5091]

Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@M.Menger]

that was absolutely amazing.

[@izzkaban]

i loved this the way you explained everything! thank you so much for sharing your work with us, also the tintin poster in the background, now im craving that movie

[@Hymnodi]

Thank you so much, this was really inspiring!

[@HalfWarrior]

Really awesome! Thanks!

[@cassie_chimmy]

this is amazing. thank you!

[@nadeemnadaf843]

Something about showcasing sponsorships during start of video you can just show just sponser title and say "more about it at the end of video".❤️❤️❤️❤️ Loved your work

[@kikoeart3021]

Superb video! Beautiful and nicely broken down process

[@nalanieruiz]

Ughhh soo talented!!!!😭👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ziksarthi]

wow thanks Proko!!

[@TheScrewyouth]

Amazing. Great lesson from a great master!

[@reiruivah555]

This video was really helpful for someone like me who suck at drawing backgrounds/sceneries

[@_Crazyslots]

Thank you so much! This is so useful!

[@cringeypopsicle589]

Awesome video as always!! I'd love to see Jordan Grimmer in here in the future!!

[@toddtyrrell]

Thanks so much, going to get the book.

[@lorenzo5694]

He used as reference the church of my village Martina Franca!!

[@shay256]

cool demo! really enjoyed

[@saltandiron3379]

This was amazing!

[@ajayiolajide3721]

Oh my God! This guys looks soooo good! Oh my! Definitely going to learn a lot from him

[@lya__]

I loooove this style. I wish I could do that 😳 Maybe one day, if I work hard 🥰

[@FJRamosArt]

Thank you for this. Sometimes we can forget some principles that make it easier to build.

[@risro.O]

this is great and gives a real Craig Mullins feel

[@user-ff5ke9og1j]

Extremely beautiful drawing!😊

[@lucas_oreki5287]

*places 3 big stone statues of ancient men in the background
Jojo fans: Ah yes, it's all coming together...

[@nitinvenkatesan]

Kars, Wamuu, esidisi.

[@jarendraws]

@@nitinvenkatesan kind of breaks the reference

[@nitinvenkatesan]

@@jarendraws I know. XD.

[@staches_]

*theme starts playing*

[@joshuhigashikata9201]

@@staches_ ayayayay

[@krift1716]

Wonderful art!

[@milesmatic2872]

Awesome video, very insightful!

[@giselarosario917]

Beautiful!

[@unmeshai]

Incredible!!

[@Gabreya]

That is EXCELLENT TALENT!

[@AbijithKa]

Learned a lot

[@Chinornor]

Lighting! This is great

[@SiLuettaArt]

Thank you!

[@gabrielbrandt9220]

Let's goooooo Dom!!!

[@jamesmathie1837]

👍 book looks sweet

[@dapesart4842]

very helpful :)
thank you

[@alexlakota3598]

thanks for the video

[@deepaksivarajan7391]

Thank you

[@user-ti4bm4md5y]

2 min and i like it already.

[@tjs9876]

Reminds me of Chien Chung Wei's watercolors

[@alephcelis]

Awesome thanks a lot

[@abmartdrawing5366]

Awesome...,thank you so much I have shared a very good tutorial

[@binimk8072]

Hi, proko ! ....I'm a big fan of ya...!

[@Janos.Artzone]

Cool!

[@jomo2483]

He's so talented

[@graphifero7582]

Thanks again Dudes

[@eslamsalah2886]

Like it😍❤️❤️

[@xxxxbuttxxdragon]

You;re amazing :D !

[@uncleatelier8495]

Wow~ You're so good at drawing with graphics.~~~^^

[@gold.mle5a393]

Great work man, how much time does it take you to finish this painting?

[@bryanbantar9742]

this man just painted a masterpiece like its nothing

[@halicusnguyen8864]

Everything feels so...alive. It's like the buildings are living

[@VOX01illust]

wonderful

[@mapacheguapo848]

This is fantstic

[@lordbrzin]

wow..fast and furious)awesome

[@ETFbvbAA]

So pretty 😸

[@razeel94]

Awesome

[@batool5779]

واو ابداع

[@gunjansisodiya7281]

this is sooo Ammmmaaaaaazzinnnggggggg................

[@JohnSankeyJob]

awesome

[@kanta5072]

those brushes look so good :(

[@julianas.3352]

Any more other resources to make lighting like that? I’m really looking for it everywhere and this was the only video I can find what I was looking for

[@lowlightbw]

This guy who lived more than a 100 years ago J. Sargent would like to have a word with you about watercolor sir....ha Great video!

[@Careless_101]

Notification squade!!

[@sketchpawss8246]

nice :)

[@gebrosgaming9380]

Pls upload videos on sketching

[@muradhossain5768]

super

[@brendanwood1540]

Someone needs to make a graphite paint that can be applied to brushes so they effectively become a stylus. Then we can take real brushes and scale the digitized fingerprint. However, brush angle and spread can be directly controlled by the orientation of the real paintbrush held by the user. Either that or just make a range of specialized styles tools that have bristles and different weights. Then the contact area becomes the brush impression and there is no need for scatter, shape dynamics, or jitter that may create a repeating or digital texture. The stylus set could be as simple as the classic brushes that are included with Photoshop. Ideally though, each one would have a wheel that can adjust the scale and also the pressure when holding down a key.

[@arksavanna1960]

just got new art parent!

[@4ocketart]

great 👍 ❤🧡💛💚

[@0CryingAngel0]

12:50 looks a lot like the United Nations square in Bucharest. Anyone know if that's the case? Just curious, thanks!

[@artkonina]

I'm pretty sure I had his brush on my old pc. Anyone familiar with it and knows whose is it or where I can get it?

[@Caracatungas]

yo dude what graphics card does you canvas have?

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

Mangas and Sin City approved the video's theme.

[@mauriciomagalhaes181]

your right

[@justagirl-919]

Omg I'm early 😁

[@caravaggiomerisi6393]

good studies

[@JSB651]

Hmmmmm is any of your work on runeterra??

[@j0hnnyblade]

I don’t really get it - if the purpose of the storytelling in this finished image is about the man who goes to the office and loses his documents, why is there so much attention put on the buildings, what is the purpose of making central one more imposing with the statues? To me it looks like it is about the guy in front admiring the sun shining on the buildings cause my eye is drawn to the brightest area of the canvas

[@SwordmasterSeph]

something something eye of the beholder. not everyone is gonna get the same feel from an image.

[@shanghaitatoo]

I agree. It's a beautiful piece, but not to tell a story about the person and what's happening to him. It's a piece about the building and light - that's the focus. Not the person. I have the same feeling with most of these style of story telling - it doesn't tell much of the story of the character. It's just a beautiful landscape with some vague characters in them.

[@shanghaitatoo]

Also, I think what would improve massively to the storytelling is to have the light fallen on the man who dropped his paper and what's happening around him.