Colour study

[Amit Dutta]

To pick up on a point you mentioned earlier, photo studies can certainly be useful for convenience of subject matter if nothing else, and they can be a very good approximation for sure. However if that's all that people do, you actually can see they start to paint like a camera, and their understanding of light is that as seen by a camera lens, not their own eyes. Depends what kind of knowledge one seeks to apply to your work :)!

I did a cgma enviro design course a while ago, it helped me a lot at the time, so good luck. remember, as with anything, you get out what you put in :)