Some practice using two tone lighting setups to examine facial planes and how lighting affects the mood of a piece. Also got a DeviantArt feature which is nice!

I started this portrait as a class demonstration, in order to let the students understand the color in a colouered light source condition. As for this portrait, it made more complex and fun with it's light source from the bottom and the texture on the mordel. To simplify the texture contents based on understanding the inner structure is one of the importance in paint/draw a portrait. Photo Ref: Yulia Shur

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is known for large-scale installations. He often uses light and water to impact the viewer’s senses. He works in his Berlin studio with a team of 35 p…

Tips for using directional lighting in photography - How light direction affects the image and the differences between front, back, and side lighting.

Artist Javier Arizabalo Garcia creates hyperrealistic hand paintings. The pictures appear so supple that they could be photographs.