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Check out the Exercise, Photo Reference, and Download the Practice Sheet HERE To see this finished example step by step of this exercise, check that out HERE .

EXERCISE: Analyzing how to look at different materials and textures and how to accurately capture shading and rendering them.
This exercise is another look at your analyzing skills and being able to interpret what you see and re-creating that. Now this exercise may seem simple but it’s berry difficult when you work to get all the detail and lighting accurately. The challenge is looking at a few different factors: highlight placements, bounce lighting placements, color, and detailing. So we are looking at four berries (i realize a strawberry isn’t actually a berry, but in name only) and looking at how to capture them in a digital painting. So below are the 4 berries, so take a look at the tips and then download the sheet to get started!
Blueberry – The easiest of the group, the blueberry should be treated differently. Rather than selective placement of highlights, see how the light is more spread out almost like this isn’t a direct highlight. Focus on the matte look and try to achieve the texture of the surface.
Raspberry – This is where the lighting challenge is heavy. When the light passes through the surface of the berry, the inside will create a subsurface scattering effect making it appear as if the material has a soft glow of color from the inside. Also you need to focus on those highlight placements as well as the detail of the little “hairs”.
Blackberry – Just like the raspberry, there is a lot of detail work in terms of separating each “segment” and giving it a proper lighting surface. This berry doesn’t have the “hairs” or the subsurface scattering like the raspberry however.
Strawberry – Now this can be painstaking if you aren’t patient. YES, i expect each seed to be placed and give the impression that it’s slightly pushed into the berry affecting the way lighting is treated. You can certainly see that in the highlights in the reference. You can do it!

Description
Check out the Exercise, Photo Reference, and Download the Practice Sheet HERE To see this finished example step by step of this exercise, check that out HERE .

EXERCISE: Analyzing how to look at different materials and textures and how to accurately capture shading and rendering them.
This exercise is another look at your analyzing skills and being able to interpret what you see and re-creating that. Now this exercise may seem simple but it’s berry difficult when you work to get all the detail and lighting accurately. The challenge is looking at a few different factors: highlight placements, bounce lighting placements, color, and detailing. So we are looking at four berries (i realize a strawberry isn’t actually a berry, but in name only) and looking at how to capture them in a digital painting. So below are the 4 berries, so take a look at the tips and then download the sheet to get started!
Blueberry – The easiest of the group, the blueberry should be treated differently. Rather than selective placement of highlights, see how the light is more spread out almost like this isn’t a direct highlight. Focus on the matte look and try to achieve the texture of the surface.
Raspberry – This is where the lighting challenge is heavy. When the light passes through the surface of the berry, the inside will create a subsurface scattering effect making it appear as if the material has a soft glow of color from the inside. Also you need to focus on those highlight placements as well as the detail of the little “hairs”.
Blackberry – Just like the raspberry, there is a lot of detail work in terms of separating each “segment” and giving it a proper lighting surface. This berry doesn’t have the “hairs” or the subsurface scattering like the raspberry however.
Strawberry – Now this can be painstaking if you aren’t patient. YES, i expect each seed to be placed and give the impression that it’s slightly pushed into the berry affecting the way lighting is treated. You can certainly see that in the highlights in the reference. You can do it!