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Digital Painting 101

Overview
Master the fundamentals of digital painting at your own pace with this all-new Lunar Academy course featuring Mooncolony Senior Artist Alexandre Leoni.
Streamline Your Digital Painting Process 🖌️

Do your digital paintings look muddy or flat? Do you get bogged down in a long, disorganized rendering process? It’s time to streamline your workflow. In this 80-minute digital art course, Alexandre Leoni (@leoniarte) will walk you through his rock-solid rendering technique used at Mooncolony on projects like Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

Leoni will guide you through:

🚀 Creating appealing shape language

🚀 Adding depth to your artwork

🚀 Understanding values and value grouping

🚀 Experimenting with hard, soft, and lost edges

🚀 Color theory, and much more! 

Enhance Appeal and Readability

Leoni is a master at creating illustrations that viewers instantly connect with. In this digital painting course, you’ll get to see how Leoni crafts a highly readable image from scratch. Get all Leoni’s secrets to choosing colors, creating shape language, and drawing the eye to a strong focal point. 

See How a Professional Works

In this course, you’ll get an exclusive insight into Leoni’s drawing, painting, and decision-making processes for a fully-rendered character illustration. This is an opportunity to see how a top-level artist creates digital paintings from start to finish 🎨

Learn Digital Art Skills Our Industry Looks For 💼

Leoni has spent years refining his digital illustration methods. He knows that a solid artistic process is the key to creating fast, consistent work without compromising quality – an essential skill for professionals. Unlock Leoni’s digital painting process, and take your art to an industry level 💪

Your next adventure awaits. Are you in?

Chapter 1 - Intro

Chapter 2 - Process Structure

Find out how Leoni structures his digital painting process to set up his artworks for success.

Chapter 3 - Shapes

Learn how to use shape language to create a balanced and dynamic painting.

Chapter 4 - Form

Get Leoni’s tips for turning flat shapes into convincing 3D forms.

Chapter 5 - Values

See how Leoni creates controlled, cohesive lighting by first painting in black and white.

Chapter 6 - Edges

Understand how to use hard, soft, and lost edges to draw focus and add interest.

Chapter 7 - Color

Find out how Leoni chooses a harmonious color scheme, and watch him fully render his final artwork.

Overview
Master the fundamentals of digital painting at your own pace with this all-new Lunar Academy course featuring Mooncolony Senior Artist Alexandre Leoni.
Streamline Your Digital Painting Process 🖌️

Do your digital paintings look muddy or flat? Do you get bogged down in a long, disorganized rendering process? It’s time to streamline your workflow. In this 80-minute digital art course, Alexandre Leoni (@leoniarte) will walk you through his rock-solid rendering technique used at Mooncolony on projects like Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

Leoni will guide you through:

🚀 Creating appealing shape language

🚀 Adding depth to your artwork

🚀 Understanding values and value grouping

🚀 Experimenting with hard, soft, and lost edges

🚀 Color theory, and much more! 

Enhance Appeal and Readability

Leoni is a master at creating illustrations that viewers instantly connect with. In this digital painting course, you’ll get to see how Leoni crafts a highly readable image from scratch. Get all Leoni’s secrets to choosing colors, creating shape language, and drawing the eye to a strong focal point. 

See How a Professional Works

In this course, you’ll get an exclusive insight into Leoni’s drawing, painting, and decision-making processes for a fully-rendered character illustration. This is an opportunity to see how a top-level artist creates digital paintings from start to finish 🎨

Learn Digital Art Skills Our Industry Looks For 💼

Leoni has spent years refining his digital illustration methods. He knows that a solid artistic process is the key to creating fast, consistent work without compromising quality – an essential skill for professionals. Unlock Leoni’s digital painting process, and take your art to an industry level 💪

Your next adventure awaits. Are you in?

Meet your mentor
Alexandre Leoni

Alexandre Leoni (@leoniarte) is one of Mooncolony’s Lead Artists, with over 15 years of artistry under his belt. During his career, Leoni has become a notable figure within Brazil’s creative community, well-known for his colorful stylized work. Leoni has extensive experience in card game illustration, working on franchises such as Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, KeyForge: Dark Tidings, and Lightseekers Awakening. He is also a Lead Artist on Mooncolony’s 2.5D animated cinematics. Alongside his work at Mooncolony, Leoni is passionate about helping budding game artists succeed in the industry.

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