Drawings Featuring Backlighting - Giving Birth to Cinematic Moments

Lighting can be a powerful tool in both illustration and photography, and how you control it can dramatically alter your image. Backlighting is one of those things that’s hard to master as a beginner, but when done correctly, it can make for a striking portrait! By positioning the primary light source behind your subject, you can create a halo effect around their face, thereby heightening the feeling of the moment to cinematic levels.

Check out the following illustrations that are at once dramatic yet soft, as though touched by a celestial glow!