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Understanding Light and Shadow

🌄 Paint like a traditional artist—digitally.
Join Tiffanie Mang as she explores the dramatic light and shadow of desert slot canyons using Adobe Photoshop and Heavy Paint in a two-part digital painting demo rooted in traditional techniques.

In this course, Tiffanie shows you how to:
🎨 Carve light and shadow with painterly depth
🪨 Simplify complex textures of rocks and cliffs
👁️ Use value and contrast to lead the eye
💻 Compare workflows between Photoshop and Heavy Paint using the same reference photo

Whether you're a digital artist or a traditional painter curious about digital tools, this is a powerful lesson in composition, simplification, and expressive mark-making.

🕒 Runtime: 2+ hours
🔒 Available exclusively through the Pro Artists Club


Learn more about maintaining harmony in Tiffanie's Online Mentorship.
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Tiffanie Mang

Tiffanie currently works as visual development artist at Marvel Studios. She also worked as an animator on the Oscar nominated feature Loving Vincent at Breakthru Films. She is also known for her gouache landscape paintings and her well-organized tutorials to help more artists around the world to level up.

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