Painting the Forest Spirit - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 592

9. Click in the mask so it is active. From the tools, select the Gradient tool. The Gradient is located under
the paint bucket so if you do not see the gradient icon, click and hold on the paint bucket to select it ( Fig-
ure 9-64 ) .
Figure 9-64: Select the Gradient tool.
10. With the Gradient tool selected, click and drag from the upper left to lower right corners of the image.
This will add a gradient to the mask layer causing the lighting effect to grow in intensity toward the feet,
giving the impression of light falling off to shadow. If you see the actual gradient in your image, you are
not currently painting into the layer mask. To fix this, undo with Ctrl + Z, make sure you click on the mask
in the layer menu, and draw the gradient again ( Figure 9-65 ).
Figure 9-65: Create an adjustment layer to control the levels and selectively darken parts of the image