Artist Lighting overview

Updated September 29, 2026

Studio 02 · Artist Lighting is made for drawing, painting and illustration. It uses the same 3D lighting workspace as Photo Lighting, with the same heads, four lights, presets, gels, surfaces and light controls.

The difference is the tools around it. Instead of camera and lens tools, you get Value Study, Form & Shadow and Drawing View, and you can place your own reference beside the 3D head. Use it to understand how light describes form, to simplify a reference into values or to study a pose and its shadows.

Save a useful setup to The Archive to come back to it later.