A little lite, but here is my assignemnt. Thanks for the lesson, I like to try to learn new approach, but I have a mixed feelings about this method. I felt that I saved some time that my blending layers are taking care of shadows so I can focus more on flat colors, but on other hand I felt abit of mental friction when deciding and seperating occlusion shadows from core shadows and higlights so after some struggle I ended up merging all my shadows and higlights into one layer with overlay mode and have only one multiple layer for just core shadows. Then I painted my colors over it. So right now I don't feel any strong advantages over the previous process (Colorazing grayscale paiting - demo1) where we painted a layer with values and let blending mode take care of colors. But thanks again for the lesson, of course I am glad I tried new approach, I guess I will probably appreciate it more with more experience.

Here is my assigment. I liked that witch theme in colorizing grayscale demo so I painted one in black and white and then colorized with blending modes, which was fun and I think gradient map is now my new favorite blending mode as i could easily create new nice color setup from antlers to fur. As for light sources I went for cold blue from the upper right and warm orange-ish from the bottom left. Thanks so much for the lesson.

I used a reference number 3 for my assignment. I didn't draw a thumnail exactly, but I used a flat color mapping instead. As for the main paiting I diverged from the reference mostly in this: in reference we have two light source, the orange warn on the left and cool white on the right and in my paiting swap them as I wanted the river to receive the most light, while left rest of the foliage and rocks on the left I wanted to be mostly in a shadow. Also in the reference most of the foliage is grouped in dark values and this way the foliege on the right can have a little bit more brither values. I used a photobashing for a texture on the water. Thanks for the lesson.

Hey jo people,  here are my submissions for the assignment, I spend about two evenings on one piece, my most obvious weak points I think are the hands and feet.  Something that I really need to work on is keeping a consistent edge quality when working with a textured brush, as I find myself losing control more often than not and getting a muddied result in the end. I hope you like my pieces and feedback of any sort is greatly appreciated.

This is my second attempt at gray scale paiting. I had a lot of fun paiting this one.

My attempt for 8 different apples

Thanks for the lesson. This is my attempt for value paiting assignment