one of my favorite art exercises in school when I was first learning to paint with physical paints, we took a canvas, covered it in roughly 1 inch grid lines an

one of my favorite art exercises in school when I was first learning to paint with physical paints, we took a canvas, covered it in roughly 1 inch grid lines and then had to left to right top to bottom paint a scene by first mixing the correct color and simply painting that 1 inch square, it REALLY teaches you how light bounces around a scene, reflects through objects and so on... the other thing that really got me into learning how light works funny enough was moving on to 3d art! being able to isolate a single sphere in a room, with accurate light simulation and light let me really hone in that sense. (and yeah colors are VERY psychological as well, you percieve them very differently based on what they are near for exmple)