Lynda - Digital Matte Painting Essentials 3: Tone

After you?ve perfected your perspective drawing, the next step in the matte painting process is to layer in tone: the master tool in the matte artist?s arsenal for establishing a fully formed structure. David Mattingly, a matte artist for many groundbreaking motion pictures, takes a black-and-white drawing and shows how to use the five elements of light?dark sides, light sides, cores, cast shadows, and final darks? to paint the surfaces and create a realistically shaded environment in Adobe Photoshop.

This course is part 3 in David?s Digital Matte Painting Essentials series. Go back to part 2 to recreate the castle drawing he uses in this course, or if you simply want to learn more about form, you can use the example provided in the exercise files.