Color and light

The Masters of Art series brings together artists who paint with both paint and digital. Their combined experience is vast, and in this book they provide you with in-depth theory and practical advice on using color and light to enhance your images.

Expert Charlie Pickard takes you through color theory in depth, including the color hierarchy, value grouping, color constant, and exposure. You’ll see how tone, value, and chroma can help you create, mix, and adjust your color palette. Then, you’ll explore the complex subject of light. With beautiful illustrations, you’ll understand and work with complex concepts like shading, shape, volume, and texture. We’ll also explore the three main types of surfaces—matte, specular, and transparent—so you can confidently recreate any of them.

Then, such outstanding artists as Jamila Knopf, Gouweiz and Nathan Fawkes will offer you educational materials focused on the possibilities of using color and light. Each artist divides the process into stages and talks in detail about their actions at each of them: how they managed to make the colors amazing, the lighting - realistic, the atmosphere - captivating, and the surfaces of objects - believable. Each of the artists has their own style - and therefore there will be many techniques for putting the theory into practice. Additional recommendations are given by other invited artists who are also experts in their field. So you will additionally get acquainted with even more styles, skills and means of creating an image.

This is not only a unique opportunity to study the interaction of color and light in detail, but also a comprehensive practical guide that is always at hand.