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This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about designing your color scheme for a piece. Beginners tend to grab any and all colors based on the true color of objects, but just like composition or shape, you should design your colors. This helps the piece to…

This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about about color mixing, especially in trying to get good neutralized colors. As we saw in an example from class, if you are painting a strawberry, you might not use a bright red, you might need to neutralize it…

This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about more issues with color selection and color mixing. We will get into this topic more as we go, but colors should be picked and designed for a piece to convey an emotion. You don’t want to just pick…

This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about how to select colors for a piece. Beginners especially just pick random colors based on the true local color of objects, but color really needs to be designed just like shape and light. In this lesson we just…

This card is from SVS Magic of Color. This lesson is about the basics of color theory including basic terms and the color wheel. Most of this is easy except for the difference of shade (adding black), tint (adding white) and tone (adding grey). It was also a challenge for…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about the different in lighting styles. Just because it’s possible to light things in a more realistic way, it doesn’t mean that you need to. Light can be flat and graphic, or realistic, or somewhere in between. This lesson…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about basic lighting of objects. One of the big points is that the local tone is part of lighting. You won’t see the local tone unless there is existing light. So, the rest of lighting is actually very minimal.…

This card is from SVS Light and Shadow. This lesson is about adding shadow to an exterior scene. The most important thing about this lesson is to simplify and not get stuck trying to get every little detail correct. It needs to be believable, not perfectly accurate. The lasso tool…