The light in your recent art (for SporadicRat) is soooo pretty. If you don't mind me asking, how do you create those soft, directional light beams like that? Love seeing the wip to complete work too! ^^
aAA thank you!
funny enough a lot of glowy effects like that can be achieved with just an airbrush tool!!
here's how i draw those:
STEP ONE: LIGHT SOURCE. in this case, a big white or near-white box. if you're following along to do this yourself, I recommend making a separate layer for each step.
STEP TWO: INSERT AIRBRUSH. I like to have my brush be large enough to cover the Thing I want to glow, then I just swipe across it. I personally like to vary the pen pressure to get a little unevenness.
The brush I used here is the default Soft Airbrush that comes with Clip Studio Paint. If you do not have the Soft Airbrush in your copy of Clip for some reason, click the hamburger menu [yes that IS a real term for the three-line menu icon] and manually add it from the defaults:
STEP THREE: DIRECTIONAL LIGHTING. Using the same brush I drew a couple lines towards the object [in this case, Dramatic Sebastian]. I used a smaller brush size here You may need to adjust the opacity here to get a more desired effect. I stick between 25% and 75% opacity. You want those lines to be slightly transparent - unless you want it aggressively beaming down at your object like a laser.
Dust particles can help sell the glow effect. Try to focus the dust particles IN the beams themselves. You can have some stragglers outside the beams but dust illuminates best under direct light.
now if you want fancy glowy COLOURS i use a slightly different method!!! i use the same steps as above, only for the airbrush layers i use a darker colour and have those layers set as Hard Light layers:
i didn't use the Hard Light for white solely because using a Hard Light layer here did not change the overall appearance of the white At All.
hope this helps!!! ;w;
