Here is my final assignment along with the imagination bonus assignment. I am going to do a few more of the imagination assignments before I move on to the Painting 102 class.

Here's the second part of week 6 assignment - Painting from Photos. I started with the 15 minute quick study in one sitting, but the finalizing took me longer because aside from taking my time with this, I was also working on this intermittently due to many distractions in my daily life. But I finally finished it. This course had been fun, I will be doing the next course- Painting Light 102.

For the final week of this course, here's one part of the assignment, which is painting the Week 1 Bio-Mashup Creature in color. A line drawing version of this was my Week 4 Word Prompt assignment. My invented word is Red Zepandalabra, which was a combination of 3 animal types : Red Panda, Zebra and Labrador Retriever. I included these animals in the composition to visually explain the word. I took my time with this assignment. The background had so many iterations that at some point, I thought of removing it altogether. I had difficulty figuring out what setting they should all be at. Because the animals were drawn first without considering the background. I realized adding it later was much harder. I'm not so sure of the lighting. I just tried to apply all the things I learned so far in this course. Any critiques and comments are very much welcome and needed. The second part of the assignment is coming next.

I decided to take my time with these assignments so I'm handing them in a bit later than I was supposed to. I also did an extra assignment where I've drawn my keys from real life; it's so interesting to see dynamic range in practice! Anyway, so that's the end of the course; I already knew a fair bit about light prior to jumping in so a lot of it served as a nice refresher, but I'm really excited for what I'll learn in PL102! I'll be seeing you then, Jeremy!

I tried to eyeball, it's really hard to find the right colour and I also had some trouble with the atmosphere and fire. Definitely need more practice. But I had fun! First is 15mins, second is 2hrs.

Tried doing the color study without the color picker, it was interesting and time flew by. The imaginary bonus (dog owl in my case) was a fun experience, never done something like that and am quite pleased with what came out after ~4 hours or so. Now that I look it at as thumbnail, though, I see I could've done more with the shadows, ha!

Used the color picker during the 15 minutes but then eyeballed everything else during the remainder of the time. Struggled a lot in letting my imagination do some of the lifting in the animal painting but hopefully I'll fix that with the Painting Light 102 course.