an acrylic resin in the present embodiment the protrusion like structures 51 and 52 may alternatively be formed on the tft substrate 2 the protrusion like structures 51 and 52 may be formed by stacking parts of the cf resin layers 40 one over another instead of forming the protrusion like structures 51 and 52 at an independent step a liquid crystal display according to a second embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference to fig7 fig7 shows a sectional configuration of the liquid crystal display according to the present embodiment as shown in fig7 in the present embodiment protrusion like structures 52 and 53 having different heights above a substrate surface are formed on an opposite substrate 4 instead of taking advantage of a difference in the height of a tft substrate 2 point like protrusions 45 are formed after the formation of the protrusion like structures 52 and some of the protrusion like structures 52 are covered by a resin layer 46 which is formed simultaneously with the point like protrusions 45 using the same material a protrusion like structure 53 greater in height than a protrusion like structure 52 is formed by the resin layer 46 and a protrusion like structure 52 which is covered by the resin layer 46 thus there is provided protrusion like structures 52 which are formed of an acrylic resin and protrusion like structures 53 which are greater in height than the protrusion like structures 52 surface sections of the structures 53 being formed of the same material as that of the point like.