Using Shading Assist for quick light experiments
Experimenting with light and shadow is essential for creating compelling artwork, and sometimes you don’t have a clear idea in mind about which light angle will best convey your story. Manually testing various setups can be time-consuming, and that’s where the Shading Assist feature comes in: it streamlines the process, allowing you to quickly explore different lighting scenarios with minimal effort. By leveraging this tool, you can focus on refining your composition and storytelling while ensuring that your light and shadow choices are both efficient and visually striking.
Shading Assist is a function that automatically creates light and shadow based on your line and color layers. There are some prerequisites you must follow to make sure Shading Assist works correctly:
- Separate your layers so that the lines and the base colors are in different layers.
- The line layer must be set as Reference layer. We covered...
