How to render digital art using layers - BRUSHES included - Beginner friendly tutorial

Summary by Krater

A digital painting demonstration in Clip Studio Paint showing how to build up a portrait using separate layers for line art, background, shadows, ambient occlusion, flat colors, and highlights. The narrator explains lighting principles like form shadows, cast shadows, half-tones, and ambient occlusion using a 3D sphere and an Asaro head model.

From the video

Answers: How do you paint portraits using layers in Clip Studio Paint?

• Digital painting in Clip Studio Paint
• Layer modes like multiply and overlay
• Form shadow and cast shadow
• Half-tone values
• Ambient occlusion in painting
• Flat color mapping
• Lighting planes of the head

What it concludes

• Using multiply layer mode for shadows ensures only rich darks show through the underlying layers.
• Maintaining a gap between light and shadow value families clarifies lighting in a painting.
• Light family values should be given more real estate than shadow family values.
• Ambient occlusion represents the deepest pockets of shadow where ambient light is blocked.
• Overlay mode can affect both color and value, making it easier to build highlights on top of established shadows.