Color practice

    So this was a painting exercise I gave myself mostly to see how well and how quickly I could match color and light from an image. I estimate I spent around an hour or so on this drawing. The challenge I gave myself was to not ever sample color from the original photo and simply see how well I could match with just my own eye, also I painted my version entirely on one layer to keep the challenge pure and not using any cheats.

After stepping back and exiting "the zone" I can easily see what I need to work on in terms of training my eye. The biggest things I noticed were:
      -Overall I tend to shift hues way too much towards yellow
      -I get muddy with my colors rather than keeping them simple and pure
      -I soften the light too much and shy away from hard terminators
      -I also seem too shy away from heavy saturation and also dark darks and bright whites

With these issues in mind I will work on another photo referenced one hour color study and see how much I can improve. Stay tuned guys!

Poor clown :(

WIP Match to Image Plate

Almost finished! I had critique today and will be implementing the final fixes over the weekend :)

Photo is on the right, CG render is on the left. Rendered in mental ray in linear color space.