Artist Lighting overview

Updated October 21, 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.

As in Photo Lighting, the Key and Fill light are there from the start and Advanced Mode opens the Back and Hair light, gels, the extra tones and the Saved setups and print tools.

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