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The left picture is the dummy head I used as the subject of the scene to do the lighting exercises. The right image is the reference whose lighting I'm mimicking

I see I think I get it now. I think i'm just lacking the knowledge on this so couldn't understand it before. looks good though .

it's always great to improve ourselves and learn new skills. creating more value by making ourselves more valuable. for me im trying to learn chinese :P and i think you did a great job i dont think i could do any better. i think the only digital editing software i used is like paint and gimpy or canva lol

It's also possible I didn't explain it clearly, so I'm glad you asked. Thanks for your feedback, I'm a beginner but I was quite happy with the results.

You're learning chinese, that's awesome! My brother has been at that for some years as well, so I'm familiar with how complicated it is. Super useful language to know for sure

Well I can't even tell that you're a beginner . I'm not sure what the benchmark would be or comparison between beginner and pro. you are probably better than the average.

Yea i mean i kinda am but it's not going so well lol cuz maybe I don't use it enough. Yes it's super difficult but for me as long as I can speak and listen I'm fine. I alr gave up on the writing part. I'm doing well more for the listening side though. speaking is harder cuz i can't think of the vocabulary sometimes

I can imagine. No training is wasted though, even if you've given up certain parts of it for now, but you'll then have a foundation to pick it back up sometimes in the future

this is a fair point. I just gotta see how it goes. maybe I'll have a partner that is fluent and she would be able to force me to use it more hehe