week 3 face study

For homework:
Find a photo of a face. Paint the face as it appears. Do as much as possible without using the eyedropper.
Then using a mirror,  use your own face as a reference first to mimic the expression from the photo, and then to alter it.

week 2 still life

For homework, do a still life painting with 2 light sources... preferably two lamps of different types.

1. Any kind of material is OK
2. Limit to 3 hours.

weel 1 -Light logic review

For homework:


create a lighting scene with 4 primitive objects.
1. emissive shape
2. 2 lamps (one point light and one spot light)
3. make two lights colored.
4 plot overhead diagram

Essential hotkeys:
hotkey essentials
B = brush
E = eraser
Space = pan
Alt or option = color picker
X = exchange colors
Tab = turn off menus
Z=zoom
[  ]  = brush size
Tab= brush precision mode
L= lasso
Ctrl D= disable mask