Thanks for the shoutout, Jon! 😀

I want the subtitles file! Why was it in the previous lesson but not here? I couldn't even start the first part because there was no subtitle file :(

Here I tried to change source and color of light. Was a fun exercise!

Still getting caught up with the assignments, I chose the intermediate challenge and decided to paint a still life of a tea cup I own. It was challenging to paint as the light kept shifting, but I really enjoyed the process as I don't paint from life very often (though after painting this I will certainly try to make more time for this kind of practice).

@Jon Neimeister Where are we at in the course? I know w/ with what's going on in the game industry it may have made things difficult for you, but I'm ready for the next section. Let me know thanks.

I focused on doing simple studies of trying to get as close to the reference while trying to understand how light affect each plane. The Lego blocks were a little confusing, but eventually I think I figured out where the light was coming from. It's a point light source that shines from the top left, and it's located between both ends of the left side of the Lego. That explained the cast shadow "fanning out" from it, the cast shadow of the block on itself, and why the left plane of the bottom left block is in shadow. The whole exercise helped me in getting a better grasp of occlusion shadows and ambient light. The biggest discoveries I made this lesson : - Ambient light can still have an overall direction, and is not some random light floating from everywhere. For instance, even in pure sky light, there's still a sense that bottom planes are darker and top planes are lighter. - Just because a plane isn't "round" doesn't mean it cannot have a gradient. Flat planes have subtle value shifts caused by ambient light being either stronger or occluded at some parts, and that it isn't necessarily interpreted by our mind as being round. It also looks quite pretty at times.

Intermediate Challenge I painted a plaster head of Venus de Milo that my grandmother used to learn drawing in a teacher's school 75 or more years ago. The first one I painted at midnight was lightened with a pale ceiling light almost right above while the light source in the second was weak environmental(indirect) sunlight coming from windows. I used multiply to create shadow parts and then added reflected light with the screen layer. I tried painting from life this time. It was challenging because it kept changing!

Hi, thanks for the lesson. This one took some time but I am glad that I dit it. I did 2 assignments from easy challenge and 2 from intermidiete challenge. For the hard part I added a light bulb as a secondary source. I intend to be not stronger then main light source from window but stronger then second bounce from window so I mostly let closer cast shadows bit sharper and add bit of orange smudge where bounced light from window could not quite reached. With best regards, Maxmilian Tomas

Here's my intermediate assignment, still life of a lil planter pot

I did Easy challenges first. Multiply and Screen layer modes were really useful when I created shadow and light areas. I unexpectedly enjoyed this exercise because it was simple but deep as well as the last one. I'm going to do the intermediate challenge next. Critiques are always welcome.