Recoloring Existing Art - The Witch and the Cat 

Yes, You worry to much about the length of your videos. I do not have 3 hours to watch in one setting, BUT for the past 3 days I have been watching around an hour a day. I appreciating you showing the entire process. I am an extremely impatient person, and these videos reminds me that the ugly, frustrating bits are important to push through to get to the good stuff.

This is the EXACT kind of video I’ve been looking for! There’s so much “painting magic” that happens in those “boring” segments that often get sped up and bypassed. These segments, especially where you talk about your color choices for adjusting the local colors, while keeping the lighting effects you’ve already added are so beneficial! Thank you for making this video!

I'm so glad you decided to show us the struggles. It's nice to know that someone as skilled as you still has freak-out moments in the middle where it's like "Well... this isn't working. What do I do now ?" Inevitably in almost every painting I make, I hit a point where it feels like I don't even know what the heck I am doing and the imposter syndrome voice gets real loud. I hit the wall and think to myself "I've been doing this my whole life and I know nothing. The last painting must've just been a fluke." But eventually I finish the painting. Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes I might not LOVE the result, it might not be *perfect* but it's another notch along the learning ladder and at least I made it through. 1 down, a million more to go. I know that makes it sound like I hate being an artist, and at times I feel like I do... but I also love it and can't live without it. So yeah.

This was amazing! Watched it while working my regullar office job. I would have watched this whole thing live without a problem!

I think the videos are amazing and don’t lack any music! Thank you for being you :)

no music is fine! thank you for sharing your real-time process and your thoughts

Thanks for putting this together! I see so many sped up videos I have no point of reference for how long a nice painting like this should realistically take. I also like it without music and just casual talking. Thanks! Love your work!

On music: Imo it's fine to have some, especially if it helps *you* to work, but in principle, if people need music to focus on the video, it's trivially easy to have some music play at the same time, and then it's 100% up to the viewer what music is played how loudly etc.

This is great! I personally appreciate longer art/painting videos.

I could not keep my eyes of the owlcat XD Awesome video! love the long slow ones. I am never sure whether I should start with lighting or local colors.

These videos with your thought process are so helpful to me! I wish more artists shared what they're thinking while working without speeding up the video. Thanks Jeremy!

I loved this video because i have never seen an approuch likes yours on coloring. It's really awesome starting by the general lights and then thinking about local colors! I have never thought about this method and I am sure that makes the scene more coherent. If i could afford your courses i would take them for sure but really thanks for your free content! It's unbelievable and I learn a lot with it. Sorry for my english but I am a fellow italian aspiring artist. Again thanks a lot!

Thanks for showing your whole process. There aren't many videos in real time from start to finish with explanation of the process. The struggle is real: undo, undo, undo, painting on the wrong layer, using the wrong brush, getting stuck, etc. And I never thought you zoom in. The amount of time and effort put in really shows in the final artwork.

I loved watching this without music -- Thank you so much for giving us such a full and detailed video!!

Seeing the whole piece, you did great work overall and this was very insightful. Whenever color relativity comes into play it's almost like a little magic trick. I think magenta light is probably some of the trickiest to get down partially because it's not something experienced very often in reality. (There is a reason people choose magenta for their default texture-is-missing color) and so I'm not surprised you struggled with that at first, but you really got there, especially on day 2. One thing I noticed (and I'm sure you would have too if you had spent more time on this than an already quite long RU-vid video allows) is that you lost a lot of the shape in particular on the legs.

Bro, thank you for upload the whole process and this helped me a lot and gave me more courage to pick up my coloring skills so big thumbs up and hope to see more in the future!

No music! Your comments and anecdotes are just the ticket!

Lol I was really cheering you on at those aha moments 😂 like YES!! that’s what you needed!! 💪 I love the length of the video to see the whole though process!

Thank you for making this. I do a lot of work using compositing techniques in photoshop but I always start with a line drawing and then playing values and colors to evaluate if my design is working and to explore potential lighting options. This was really helpful to see how you think about light and how you build up detail.

Longform vids and hearing thought process is so helpful. Watching this while practicing👍

Thank you so much for your generosity Lighting Mentor I learned a lot from this. Please keep it up!

honestly, i like that there is no music. so calming this way, completely grounded in the way youre putting colors on the canvas, please if you can, im sure some of us would love to see more❤

I have learned so much from your videos! You are amazing! I so appreciate you showing long videos, its so helpful to see your progress!

Your videos is pure beauty in every aspect.

I am SO incredibly grateful to the algorithm for sending your channel to me. I know what I am going to be binge-watching for the next couple of weeks (3 videos in and you've blown my mind with every single one). SO deeply honored to be getting this invaluable knowledge from you. THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU!

Loved this , especially how to work through those… “this is terrible “ moments. And then the aha, moments that propels one to move forward. I really appreciated that you took the time to go through the whole process. It rocked!

Terrific video. Fascinating to watch the process. I liked the single backlight with the fog shadows behind her, but you were right that it the rear side more obscure. Just down to personal preference, I guess, and your second rim light gave you more opportunities to see that kind of shaking in action.

Love this longer form video! Great stuff.

Awesome content by the way ! Please make more !! :D Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and the "calm pedagogy" you work with.

Love your content. Really inspired me to dive into painting. Would love to see you work a long one in krita. Just keep on with what inspires you though. All the love and thank you so much!

This is so dang useful, thanks Jeremy!

EXCELLENT VIDEO!! THERE IS MUCH TO BE LEARNED HERE.

Great demo. I watched start to finish. It's always interesting to get inside the head of another artist.

A great video. I really love darktanookie's lineart 😍and with the lighting it comes out even better than it already was.

I watched this in 4 or 5 sessions. It's great to see how you work. The way you paint with light is very inspiring. Thanks!

Love this stuff, dude. Like others have said, don't need music. Like you've alluded to, most artists skip over the struggle and confusion aspect of making art, and it's super comforting to hear that even woefully talented people still grapple with these things. I'm primarily into photography but I love thinking about light in this way, as often times it can be challenging to perceive why one photo in "similar" circumstances didn't work and why the next did. Much love!

Thank you Jeremy 😳👍🏻

This was amazing ive been watching your content all day this absolutely fantastic thank you

Love this! The knowledge you have is such a big help. I have been watching videos on the 60/30/10 rule of color theory, if ever you get a chance I think the way you explain things would help me understand it better. It seems like you already subconsciously put it in your work.

Love this video so much! Don’t add music hahahahah just like your chat 🎉🎉❤❤ learned so much

Fantastic video :) I love those long form lessons that takes their time to show and explain the choices made. You really learn a tone of things :) Thanks a lot for taking the time to do that!

Thanks a lot, I like long video and learn small points. Answering for the question at 1:01:50 it's not boring, very meditative for me.

Great Stuff Jeremy! I love longform minimally edited art videos. I find when I'm struggling to focus having videos like this really helps my brain hone into what I'm working on, not to mention all the knowledge that can be gleaned from watching a pro's full process.

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!

Thank you again Jeremy for sharing your process with us! Amazing video as always!!

THANK YOU this was amazing, I learned so much! Please keep doing these types of videos. I love seeing where you put different light sources for different settings, and how you create the scene around it. I’ve noticed many have a cyan, yellow, and blue light source… is this on purpose?

I think music is unnecessary in your videos because it’s a lot more interesting hearing your thoughts through the process and even the client❤❤❤

Can you make a plain air painting from a city scene? That would be so helpful!

I love it soooo much! Someone pinch me please!

I love the long videos and i wouldn't like music over it (i'm commenting before i forget about the question, now i'll finish watching the video)

Thank you so much master❤

I'm learning so much! Around 25:43, there is a circle that shows up. Is that tool sampling color from the picture. Thank you for bringing up the fact that there are some artists who are arrogant, they just get on RU-vid to toot their horn not to teach anything. Thank you so much, that has been my experience with some fellow artists all my life.

the best part is the video DO not include any music, thanks for sharing this.

Hi Light Mentor! I love your content. Lots to learn about light and painting by watching your videos. I really like the paint brushes you use, I am always trying to get that loose, painterly look but can never get it right by the standard photoshop brushes - especially that mixer brush you use. Do you have a brush pack that you sell? Thanks! CA

Do you think you will ever make a Discord server, so we can share all our works together as a community and criqtue from one another, and it'd be a great honor to join with you. And whenever you feel like it you can maybe give some critque, it'd be such a treasure. I love you works, so inspiring. keep it up!

No music is absolutely fine. I've been working while listening and throwing an eye when able and i didnt feel the need for music (and man am i a melomane).

From midway on, you turned the lines on and off somewhat frequently. Is it a good rule of thumb to check the line layer until it no longer improves the painting, or is this futile since the lines will always make it look a little better because of the contrast?

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Light ponderings?

is some one can share where i can get the brush he use in that video ♥ Thanks a lot early

no music works imo: we can listen to our choice of music at the same time (eg. playing in another tab) or just listen to your wisdom alone :)

'Promo SM' 💘

I don't understand why people value art, created via software, less than they do art created manually. Software is just a tool. It's not great because of the kind of brush you use. You still have to do the same process whether you use a mouse and keyboard or brush and canvas.

Thank you for the video. Here's some feedback: 1. Too much saturation everywhere. (Could be good to either have one overall chromatic wash that's saturated, and breaking away from a smaller degree to add dynamism, or have a more neutral fill with one focal tone and other spots with a lower degree of saturation) 2. Lack of a clear value design and focus. (I'd pick the focus as either the magic or the fire. In this case personally I'd pick the magic, as the fire is more mundane and isn't as compositionally interesting in the image.) 3. The local colors/values seem off. (They aren't as locally cohesive as they could be, the value pattern is therefore a bit hard to read, making the first impression a bit more muddy).