How to create mood in your illustrations using Photoshop

Eugenia Vi Photoshop tutorial
(Image credit: Eugenia Vi)

Every illustration is a harmony of many aspects, which can be a difficult task to bring together. One of the most difficult aspects of illustration to get right is the atmosphere. With it, we can understand not only the vibe of a piece, but also the feelings and emotions that arise in the viewer when looking at the illustration.

Because of this, each new artwork begins with some fundamental questions: what story do I want to tell? What feelings should it evoke in the viewer? It’s understanding the answers to these questions that underlies the choice of atmosphere and its depiction through the basic tools of any artist in composition, colour and light.

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Eugenia Vi
Illustrator

Also known as EvKimo, Eugenia is an illustrator, art director and concept artist whose long list of credits includes the hit dungeon-crawling RPG Diablo IV among a range of other projects.

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