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Painted the box under ambient/morning lighting today. 

Things learned: It's important to get some patch of the darkest color down. I started by painting the box and thought that I was matching colors pretty closely. They looked pretty good relative to each other, but once I put down the shadow I realized I needed to darken everything. I also found it interesting that the darkest side of the box was significantly warmer than the rest.

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I've been spending about an hour on all these digital paintings recently. For this box, I was planning on doing a lighting study of ambient lighting and spot lighting, but it took me about 20 minutes just to get the perspective to look right and even still, the box I painted is taller than what it should be! 

Things learned: Establishing major colors on each of the box planes gets you most of the way there when lighting boxes. Capturing the warm colors right at the edge of shadows makes it look way more awesome!!

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