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In my previous deviation I described a process inspired by Sam Nielson's course Fundamentals of Lighting.
In order to see if how well I will be able to apply it in my day to day painting I did this little guy.

Probably I could have come up with something more original but I think this old peasant's portrait from Warcraft III is just perfect for such an exercise. I started by tracing the original image.
Painting on top and giving it a warm tint I came up with the Ambient Occlusion pass. Basically it's 2 values of dark orange on top of a white background with some blending.
Then I created the ambient light pass. You might point out that on the inside of the face it would show less green and pick up more of the material color and I have to give you that. It's something I didn't consider at the time I made the pass but I was sure I would be able to fix it along the way to the final image.
Adding the color pass by multiplying it on top with 65%. This was a point in the process where I was a bit worried because it is still a bit of a guessing work for me.
Same thing with adding the light layer on top using just a normal layer.
Last thing before painting on top was to use an Overlay layer in order to push the saturation around the terminator areas. You can see how the image shifts from totally derp into a "well, not too bad" version of itself.
Finishing up the whole image always keeping half an eye on Tyson Murphy's amazing portfolio.

www.artstation.com/murph
playwarcraft3.com
www.schoolism.com/
www.artstation.com/artsammich

Description
In my previous deviation I described a process inspired by Sam Nielson's course Fundamentals of Lighting.
In order to see if how well I will be able to apply it in my day to day painting I did this little guy.

Probably I could have come up with something more original but I think this old peasant's portrait from Warcraft III is just perfect for such an exercise. I started by tracing the original image.
Painting on top and giving it a warm tint I came up with the Ambient Occlusion pass. Basically it's 2 values of dark orange on top of a white background with some blending.
Then I created the ambient light pass. You might point out that on the inside of the face it would show less green and pick up more of the material color and I have to give you that. It's something I didn't consider at the time I made the pass but I was sure I would be able to fix it along the way to the final image.
Adding the color pass by multiplying it on top with 65%. This was a point in the process where I was a bit worried because it is still a bit of a guessing work for me.
Same thing with adding the light layer on top using just a normal layer.
Last thing before painting on top was to use an Overlay layer in order to push the saturation around the terminator areas. You can see how the image shifts from totally derp into a "well, not too bad" version of itself.
Finishing up the whole image always keeping half an eye on Tyson Murphy's amazing portfolio.

www.artstation.com/murph
playwarcraft3.com
www.schoolism.com/
www.artstation.com/artsammich