Congratulations on making it this far in the course. At this stage, you want to have your underpayment, completely dry so that as you work on top of it in color, it'll be totally set in place at the under painting phase. Also, you want to set up your studio so that you've got your photo reference, right up next to the painting. So I've got a printout of my photo here. It's right up next to the painting. I've also got the photo opened up on my laptop so that I can look at it on the screen.

The colors are more precise on the screen, so it's nice to have that too. And again, they're right in front of each other on this sort of picture plane so I don't have to like turn and then look at the painting. It's all sort of right in front of me. I've got my palette within arm's reach on my right hand side, bright, easy to access. So we're going to move to color next and we're going to start with a color lane. We're going to basically blocking the light side and the shadow side, working them separately.

And we'll be really focusing on what's called fall off where at the top of the light, the lights coming down on the figure. So towards the top of the head is going to be the lightest area in the light side and as it moves down the face away from the light source, it gets just a little bit darker. So I'm going to show you how I do that. And again, that's called fall off, and then we're going to work the shadows separately, keeping them really unified. So those are our goals for this stage. Get out all your paints and we're going to set the palette up together.