lighting diagrams

For homework: Diagram one of these photos, or find your own.

Also continue to work on your thumbnail.. low res, simple, and grayscale value, although you can work in color if you are feeling confident about that.

Bring in a low-res value thumbnail next week.

week 5 - thumbnailing

For homework, work on a crude, line sketch toward the final project. It does not have to be lit or detailed.. it should be a simple sketch that could be done in a few minutes.

week 4 - hair and cloth

For homework:

Do a cloth or hair study. You can do a still life with cloth or a wig.  Or you can use a photo for a hair study, but life is always preferable.

week 3 face swap

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 1 light logic review

HW assignment

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

week 9- colored still life

Dynamic light still life

For homework:

Continue refining the thumbnail.

1. Remove all traces of line and work in lit value (or color, if you are ready for it)

2. Create a detailed overhead diagram to plot your space.

3. Stay in low-res

using a photo palette in a thumbnail

We can experiment with borrowing the lighting and color palette of a photo to color our thumbnail.

For homework, work on your project thumbnail and add value. Bring grayscale value  thumbnail next week.

Hair and cloth

For homework: create three rough thumbnails toward the final. The guideline is to include a face, hair, or cloth somewhere in the image.
They can be a rough pencil sketch or line work.

Advanced Thumbnailing

For homework, so this exercise at home, and add some light sources of your choice.
The linework can be downloaded here.

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