Paint Dramatic Lighting Using Photo Reference
By Neil Blevins
Created On: Feb 6th 2016

Many times the best way to get dramatic lighting in your painting is to reference the real world, so this tutorial discusses how I used the lighting from two photographs in two paintings of a sci-fi scene from my book project Inc.

You have two ways to watch the video, you can watch the low quality one on youtube below, or you can spring for the gumroad version that's higher quality and downloadable so you can watch it anytime offline. The choice is yours!

25 min video, $2
Paint Dramatic Lighting Using Photo Reference (Gumroad)



Here's the two reference images I used:




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