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Assignment

Lesson by

Jeremy Vickery

in Painting Light 101

126

Assignments 39Lesson NotesDownloads 1

Assignment Overview

This week, your assignment involves working on three images. These images are selected for their complexity, involving color, transparency, refraction, reflections, and a variety of subtle details. Unlike simpler objects like a rubber ball, these images feature more complex shapes and require a keen eye for detail.

Task Breakdown

Start "CubeAndSphere"
Proceed to "SimpleShapes03c"
Conclude with "WeirdShapes"

Additional Resources

- Photoshop File: For "CubeAndSphere" & "WeirdShapes", you'll be provided with a Photoshop file. This file contains several layers designed to assist in your painting process:

A layer of the original painting.
A white layer to help isolate specific elements.
A line guide layer. This is particularly important as it overlays the original images with traced forms, ensuring that your shapes are accurate. This allows you to concentrate on mastering color and light without worrying about the correctness of your shapes.

Objective

The primary goal of this assignment is to develop your skills in handling complex images involving transparent objects and detailed reflections. By using the provided Photoshop file and focusing on the guided layers, you should be able to approach these challenges with greater confidence and focus on the artistic aspects of color and light.

Good luck, and I look forward to seeing your completed assignments!

Mipupu

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2mo

Fabian Ayala

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2mo

Good stuff

@mmtm

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2mo

@philowenaster

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3mo

Had some issues with my computer not wanting to cooperate, so it was slow...but I got them done. The cube and square and the red ball I used the color picker on them; on the weird shapes, I zoomed in next to the color I wanted and physically matched the color to it.

@jacorn

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3mo

Here are a few of my works this week. Top is the reference and bottom is my painting. I’m most proud of the last one with the reflections and refractions. Really pleased with how all of them turned out. Something I’ll work on in the coming week will be the amount of time I spend per painting. I get lost in the minor details and feel I’m overworking some bits without actually improving the piece as a whole. It’ll also preserve the painterly feel as photorealism shouldn’t be the objective at this stage I think

Bryant De Jesus

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4mo

I can see myself improving, but I'm still struggling and taking a while to pick my colors to match. I think my values are strong but I find it tricky to keep lights-in-lights and shadows-in-shadows when one doesn't have a matte surface. I learned a lot about reflections and different textured surfaces. I'm still building the patience to do long studies, but I keep short sessions that I resume at later time. I'm not using underdrawings when they're not part of the assignment file which leads to me warping my shapes. I was pushing to start with the painting process immediately.

@mhmakesthings

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4mo

Used Procreate and focused on picking colors by eye instead of using the color picker... For the darker red ball I kept everything on one layer instead having two layers for the background and object, which was a good stretch for me. Any feedback and critiques welcome!

Kyle Haschke

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4mo

I feel like I can copy what I see pretty well, but it’s hard to imagine especially with metallic and translucent things like these being able to do this from imagination.

@cisainz

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4mo

Vin

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4mo

Hello, here is my approach. Last week I can't blend the borders of value very well, and this week I got the answer from course. But this week, I am struggling with material with color. I already tried my best. I appreciate any feedback.

@barfu

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4mo

Day. I'm still a bit unsure on when to use the blend tool vs trying to blend via the brush

Jocelyn Sy

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4mo

Here's my week 2 assignment, I used Clip Studio Paint's blender tool to smooth-out transitions between values. ]

Courtney B

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4mo

I used the eyedropper on the red ball and focused on realistic detail. Tried my hand at color picking myself on the other two!

Filippo Galli

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4mo

I tried to push and exaggerate the colors a little bit on the "extra", which I did instead of the sphere since I had already done that in week 1. I also added some subtle gradients along the different surfaces of each for a little extra punch, though I've been a bit sloppy on the sphere and cube.

Ian Gregory

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5mo

My submission for this week’s assignment. After studying the three, overall I think I still need to improve on the brushwork especially the red sphere. Somehow I could not get it right and not sure what I can do to improve it. Glad to have done this, open for critiques!

Arman Jucutan

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5mo

Hey everyone, here is my work for this asg. I know eyeballing is another skill to practice but decided focus in edges instead! So critique regarding that is welcomed (Eyeballing is going to be a regular practice for me now though)

Arman Jucutan

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5mo

(used color picker for this)

hArtMann

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5mo

Started eyeballing more considering the feedback I was given before. I eyeballed the color until it looked like the one in the image and then color picked to check my accuracy and correct myself by color picking the color I placed and adjusting it. Most of my accuracy mistakes seem to happen in the colored grays in the shadows but not by massive amounts. I only color picked a few colors in the refractive/translucent red sphere because i was struggling a lot on that one, tons of colors. Relying on eyeballing pushed me to simplify more in order to be faster, specially in the Dobby sculpture. Thought that the folds around the neck in the clothing would take me a lot of time but thinking in planes and laying a dark and light stroke + blending stroke allowed me to get them done quickly.

Pamela D

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5mo

Here is my week two assignment. I found the glass sphere the easiest to do. Not what I expected at all!

Pamela D

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5mo

Pamela D

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5mo

Found sometime for Dobby! ;)

@nelsonsmg

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5mo

The line guide, layers and the blender sure saved up a lot of time. These are 1 hour as well Trying to understand why the color/shadows are the way they are as I go, the 2nd image sure was a challenge. In the 3rd image, why is there a grayish shadow below the shapes? Something about the light bouncing? Can't figure it out. Anyway I'll do a couple more and then dobby is next.

@nelsonsmg

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5mo

The metal thingy

Aiba Miller

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5mo

I have a lot of trouble with shadows it seems and a lot on the blending side. I'm not really a big fan of blending tools, I've always loved the painterly look, so I'll learn to blend using just the brush if I can, but blurry transitions I can't quite figure out yet. Another thing, I've always painted these things just from solid blocks of colour, but I end up having proportion issues, it's probably in best practice to actually sketch the objects first, that's a bad habit that I never grew out of. (I'll be doing a few of the others, like Dobby and Weird Shapes, but I'll sketch them myself.)

@nelsonsmg

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5mo

Nice

Arman Jucutan

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5mo

Are we supposed to eyeball the colours for the assignment or should we be utilizing the eyedropper tool throughout?

Aiba Miller

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5mo

Before you've learnt to identify colour intuitively, you'll probably have to colour pick, nothing wrong with that, but use it as a way to learn, much the way I did. Just look at the colour, try to guess where it is on the colour wheel, select it as close as you can, then paint a swatch of it on the canvas, then pick and place the real colour beside it, compare, and identify why you were off. Saturation? Local colour?

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Jeremy Vickery

Jeremy teaches Light and Color and has worked for over 25 years in the animation, film and games industry, most notably at Pixar Animation Studios