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A bedside lamp that clamps onto my bedrails and desk. I use a flourescent bulb to save power and avoid having to buy lots of short-lived normal bulbs.

i use two desk lamps with florucent lamps because they last longer, and generate less heat so my paints wont dry out as fast.

Use the wifes Ott lamp - supposed to be a better light I guess.

I use 2 clamp lamps (one on each side of my desk),with flouresent "ultra bright" bulbs.

I use one if these:

http://uk.daylightcompany.com/home/product/?id=96

As well as the room lights.

I absolutely hate any light with blue tint ,
they have messed up my mini way too many times!

the blue looks similar at night time and looks way different
at day light!

Always with a pair of lamps, both with some kind of fluorescent (I dont know... they give off the normal hue of lightbulbs).

Ones a regular desk lamp, the other is a clip on magnifier lamp.
Then I have a lone fluorescent tupe hanging over the workspace...


Yet with all these, my workspace is STILL poorly lit...

Anglepoise lamp with a ring-shaped daylight bulb. Nary a shadow to be seen.

I desk lamp with an OTT florescent, One clamp on with a florescent day lamp (30 watt?), and a stand light with 2 (30 watt?) aim-able florescents. It gets pretty bright but I am working on my tan hehe.

Normal bedroom lighting and sometimes a lamp, just a normal one from some random shop and sometimes when I can I draw back the blinds, hiss at the light and use NATURAL LIGHTING! Dum, dum dummmmm!

If it's daytime, I'll use the Sun. As the earth rotates I'll start using other means of lighting. I've got two of those wee Ikea lamps and I've also got a spot fluorescent with a magnifying glass in it.

My painting area is really terrible now as it also doubles as the kitchen table. So, I've got to put all my stuff away pretty much every 5-6 hours. My old painting area was way better, and hopefully next year when we move out of this J-Hobbit hole, I'll have more space and a proper desk that can just accumulate debris and junk.

Multiple lamps. I've only got one set of eyes.

I use a 40w>100w upgrade standard lightbulb. Tried the daylight lightbulbs but it just annoyed me. It's good because I can now see what I'm doing and because I know what colour it is gonna turn out I don't need to see the true colour

I use the fluorescent ceiling lights here at work, in the past I have tried multiple various desk lamps, a couple of the true color daylight bulbs, sunlight, etc. I find just regular old fluorescent is the best, 99% of the time game stores and events are lit by these types of bulbs, so your paint job wont take a mysterious hue when you travel, everyone sees it as you painted it.

Small halogen desk lamp. Gets a little warm, but means the models dry quick!

All my painting at home is done under a halogen lamp because it produces a very white light. At the game stores where I paint the lighting is fluourescent.

Lamp that clamps onto my desk.

I use :

Natural Light
Multible lamps
Normal Cieling Lights(unluess i forget to turn them on)

I use a little desklamp with a GE Reveal daylight bulb. The problem is - to avoid slouching over why I paint I prop up my paint station on a box (on my desk).

The neck of the lamp isn't that long though - so I wind up being right near it - I've burned my forehead a few times accidentally leaning into it.

sometimes i paint in the dark with a -y lamp that gives off little more than a T.V.

I use my desk lamp, ambient light when available, overhead light and for the kicker I have aan LED light that straps to my head and allows me to focus on my figure if need be. I call it the painting/spelunking method.

I use a slightly blue tinted LED lamp clamped to my desk. It seems to make the details pop better than other lamps, even though the colors are a bit strange. Gotta love never replacing a bulb too.

Halogen

Multiple full spectrum bulbs.

I use candles made from the renderings of obnoxious neckbeards and know-it-all redshirts ^_^

Both are cheap and plentiful- individually they arent very bright- so I have a whole wall just for them!

i use a couple of desk lamps

Ott lamp with True-Light bulbs.

I used these two lamps

I use daylight normally because in my opinion it helps me to focus better...