#lighting tips

The Bunch Pendant from Research.Lighting

The Bunch Pendant is what happens when minimal design gets a little playful. Five glowing orbs gather in a tight, radiant cluster, like a constellation that decided to hang out indoors. It’s sculptural without being serious, balanced without being boring, and just the right amount of weird (in a good way).

Each globe floats from a central hub, suspended by a slender stem that keeps things clean and quietly dramatic. The whole thing feels like it could lift off, but it’s grounded in black steel and brass, with enough glow to fill a room and then some.

You can pick between two globe sizes depending on your mood: smaller for a tighter sparkle, larger (as shown above) if you want a little more presence. Either way, the effect is the same - soft light, gentle geometry, and a bit of charm that holds the room without trying too hard.

Turns out five orbs is just the right number.

I don't have a recent one so- here's a very simple explanation

Here's the drawing before I've done any lighting.

I then make an overlay layer and make a gradient depending on the lighting tone I want and lower the opacity. I find this gives the flat colors a sort of dimensionality.

Then I make a screen layer and place rim light according to where I want the light source to be coming from- then duplicate that layer- Gaussian blur it and lower the opacity

PLAY AROUND WITH COLORS AND LAYERS

if you spent id say a year or two in digital art (this can vary from person to person) and you have a good/basic grasp on what the tools/layer modes (<very important) can do then just play around with all and any colors. lemme tell ya it helped ALOT with my lighting

using the watercolor bush in csp  and layer modes are my best fucking friends in digital art

not to mention my one true love color balance under edit>tonal correction