Painting Light and Form

[@ProkoTV]

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[@madiko]

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

[@brian0057]

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.

[@giganbombshroom3850]

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

[@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!

[@tatikoland]

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

[@ProkoTV]

Glad it helps!

[@5uperM]

thank you. this is going to be very thankful.

[@tedv9578]

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

[@ProkoTV]

Jon is a busy man at his concept art job in games. Maybe someday he'll have time for a channel, though.

[@jangzterrizer9405]

New favorite proko free video

[@ProkoTV]

Thanks for liking it!

[@chenille-w5i]

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

[@ProkoTV]

Congrats on the improvement!

[@mochisketch]

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

[@sageofmugen1724]

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

[@ProkoTV]

We had to include it there. Trigger went off with that one and we'll reference them at every chance we get lol

[@sageofmugen1724]

@@ProkoTV XD glad to know another great artist I look up to is a trigger fan , I hope I can work for them even once in the future, they care a lot about the quality of each production

[@Pegisus2501]

This was awesome! 🥳👍🏽🎉

[@oversipelio983]

this is amazing.

[@desmond1354]

Please make an entire video about how to paint soft lighting

[@ProkoTV]

We just might! In the meantime, one of our favorite digital painting teachers, with a strong focus on lighting, is Jeremy Vickery. You might find some useful info on his channel youtube.com/@lightingmentor

[@desmond1354]

@@ProkoTV I subscribed to him a year ago and asked him the same thing. My workflow is to first create an object, then add soft lighting, followed by direct lighting. But I struggle with getting the soft lighting right. I’ve followed other teachers like Marc Brunet, Marco Bucci, and Lucas Peinador, but it still doesn’t seem to be enough. My objects always end up looking flat.

[@ProkoTV]

@@desmond1354 Hmm! Okay! We'll see what we can cook up, We have some basic lighting videos coming up with our Drawing Basics course but those are very general explanations. Hopefully, we can make what you're looking for! Thanks for asking about it.

[@nagisashiota6110]

Exactly what I needed

[@Adi-px1ct]

hell yeah new vid !!!!

[@Luper1billion]

Game changing 🤯

[@paperknigth2263]

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

[@ProkoTV]

00:06 has his name and social info. But we understand. You got stuck looking into those steely eyes when it came up.

[@bethmclelland]

it does at 0:07!! It’s Jon Neimeister

[@paperknigth2263]

@@ProkoTV Oh, thanks. Sorry. I was indeed stuck looking into those steely eyes. I did register that pop up as a Suscribe bottom. At the middle of the video I check in the description who the artist was. Then I looked over the bar to see if there was ever a time when a name tag appeared and I didn't see one.

[@angimauri8092]

I missed it too cuz my brain thought it was an add- since most videos use that quick 5 second pop up for an add- while news reports or documentaries will have the person's name in the bottom left for the entire time, if not a 3rd of the time they are speaking. also: since I can't click a pop up name in the video- it would be nice to have it in the description so I can copy paste the name and follow the artist on socials, please. :)

[@KantonFigtree]

@@ProkoTVLMAO I’ve gotta use that one day 😂

[@justatouchkajm]

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

[@Cottagejay]

thanks for great video

[@RemoteGhost-u2t]

Damn! 🙌😮

[@JAMSARTCHANNEL]

Very cool!

[@ssj9devil]

I was baited by the yorick thumbnail, but I stay

[@ProkoTV]

That's one of our favorite pieces from Jon! Glad you stayed for the info 🙌

[@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...

[@HerbertHandyJr]

Hmmmm very interesting!!!

[@luciadawn9249]

Yoooo another vid

[@petervargas483]

❤

[@razym819]

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

[@ProkoTV]

John doesn't operate a channel or keep a public social presence on most social networks because of recent AI policies on most platforms. There's a tag for him at the start of the video and he's the instructor for the entire first section of the course this lesson is from. Most of his time is spent making art as part of his job in the game industry.

[@robot7338]

0:31 its not exponentially darker >:(((( it is the inverse square law >:((((( double the distance, quarter the brightness >>>>:(((((

[@ProkoTV]

Agreed! We think Jon was using the word in the colloquial sense (like when people say "literally" or "decimated" but clearly don't mean the actual definitions of those words) because he wasn't getting into direct mathy numbers behind every concept. But the words have meaning and to calling it out is good! What else are KZbin comments for?? lol

[@kuolettavaVids]

Is it just me, or is the audio not properly synced with the video?

[@ShomeAvi]

Everything is ok..and I think I am productive...then i realise AI can do everything in 2 secs....

[@riccia888]

This is the same artist who made the useless digital painting course using photoshop.

[@RobZoid1]

What do you mean

[@ProkoTV]

We can understand if the materials in the course weren't the type of info you were looking for a course to start off with. What he covered in his lessons was all very important fundamental concepts and digital art deep dives that apply to much more than just Photoshop, though that's what he demos in. There are more instructors in the second half of the course and master demos with Bryce Kho, Tiffanie Mang, Marco Bucci and more that might be covering what you want. Bryce demos in Procreate if you're just looking for other software being used.

[@Andre-ri5nu]

Maybe you're the useless not him