Yes, lighting is a wonderful, magical component that takes illustrations to the next level. It can dramatically change the mood, focus point, time of day, and temperature of a painting. However, mastering lighting is very difficult, and takes plenty practice.
I am on that mastering journey and this is one of the many steps I've taken in order to understand light and how it affects color. The School of Visual Storytelling is an amazing website featuring informative classes that help and inspire artist. Jake Parker and Will Terry are the founders of this website, they are magnificent artist and their classes will take your skills above and beyond. But enough of me rambling. I am mentioning SVS because they have a class titled Painting Color and Light, that I am keeping my eye on. I would love to buy this prerecorded class because it would help me with my lighting tremendously! Maybe I can ask for it for my birthday...or Christmas...wait it's still January.
Regardless, I will buy it one day! For now I must settle with what I did today, and that is a lighting study of a forest scene. I am currently working on my children's book and the whole story takes place in a forest, so in efforts to do a killer painting job, I really want to understand how light looks in a forest.
I am also trying to do mini 30 min to and hour paintings (notice the word "trying" please, thank you), and so far I've done pretty well. The skunk and the bunny illos are the other mini paintings I've done. I really want to improve and be the best artist I can be, and practice really does make perfect.
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