Clouds

Been going nuts with clouds this past week. The amount of color variation these bulbous forms can attain is just incredible.

Some more quickies:

I found a really great resource for skies and atmospheric references, the photo gallery at AccuWeather.com
While I usually search for reference on google image, this site has thousands of user uploaded photos of clouds in all kinds of situations, they can be filtered out by tags which makes it very convenient to pin down specific weather and time-of-day conditions.

Lighting Schemes

Objects are generally lit by a number of varying light sources at once. By changing the position of these light sources, we can extract different emotional effects from the subjects in our paintings. These are a few examples of common lighting schemes that can be found both in nature and in staged, man-made environments.

Form and Light examples

These are some typical examples of how I think about light interacting with form. Basic random shapes lit by different light sources to give the illusion of 3D form.

Mark Chong's excellent art tutorials, coupled with some of the principles gained from the early lessons of Sam Nielson's Advanced Lighting course, has inspired me to do these quite regularly.