http://www.zvork.fr/vls/

This is a handy little app  to quickly come up with interesting lighting schemes. It has helped me out a few times already when I couldn't figure it out on my own.

Try it out and see for yourself!

"The Virtual Lighting Studio lets you light interactively a portrait with multiple lights and see their combined effect. Choose between simple bare strobes, ring lights or softboxes to model the mood of your portraits and find out what lighting equipment you need. Use it freely as a learning tool for photography, painting, cinema or CG scene lighting... or just have fun and play with it!"

http://www.zvork.fr/vls/

Do you guys remember the awesome tool Virtual Lighting Studio?

It seems that it's out of beta now, and they have not only added a female model with long hair, but also added a POC!

"VLS" is a very very very good resource, despite the slightly oddly designed faces, when it comes to how light falls on the face. You can add several light sources, add ambient light, add colored light, move the position of the "lamp" and other nice features.

I especially like that they added a POC model, mostly because there's so little art-related resources when it comes to different skin color (color-palettes doesn't count). And considering the fear of unintentional white-washing, this tool will come in handy.

I FORGOT AGAIN! I missed Sunday by a few minutes in my timezone! But umm it's still Sunday in some places?

The link is self explanatory. It takes some getting used to and some of the faces can be a bit....bizarre looking but it's a neat tool for lighting on faces!