Drawing Baby Yoda - Practice using Composition Technique in Photoshop

Character study, composition and rendering of Baby Yoda

baby yoda finished (badly_).png

Software Used : Adobe Photoshop

As I was exploring different artstyles , I came up on one composition technique that most artists follow on. I decided to make a Baby Yoda and see how this technique affects the light and shadow rendered in the art .

Here is the GIF of how it progressed and step by step explanation below ;

Step 1 : Line Art

Every art begins with a line art and then we move into coloring . So I constructed as clean basic lines of baby yodaas possible .

baby yoda line.png

Step 2 : Base Color

After the line art , I applied basic base colors which will act as a foundation for the lighting and shading . So always pick natural base color like I have shown below.

baby yoda mask color finished.png

Step 3 : Ambient Lighting

After the base colors have been specified , I applied ambient lighting to the base colors . Basically ambient lighting means the lighting that is already present in the environment , take a clear blue sky for example can caste cool color tone to the subject without help of any additional lighting equipment. Here we are using a galactic type of dark blye sky with warm white tone, so it's respective ambient lighting would look like this ;

baby yoda ambieent lighting.png

Step 4 : Additional Lighting from another planet off the view including the Sun

After the ambient lighting has been applied , I still have to apply the lighting from any other existing source beside the ambient light source . Here a planet and a star sun is emitting a warm tone on the Baby Yoda as portrayed below ;

baby yoda sun lighting.png

Step 5 : Blending both Ambient and Additional lighting to create the final lighting

After all lighting were created, I blended them together and it creates this realistic final render of the lighting and shadow giving the Baby Yoda a realistic feel.

baby yoda sun color.png

Step 6 : Final Details

All the basics have finished now , so I applied the stars and little tweaking of the final render and I received this amazing outcome .

baby yoda finished (badly_).png

Special Thanks to @lorentm for her amazing works that motivated me to do this study.Thank you for viewing my blog , don't hesitate to follow and support me if you enjoyed this and have fun guys :) See you on the next post soon.