I think it’s too hard to try to fiddle with lights and see what happens on render on this potato computer so I’m just going to accept that I can’t learn lighting as much as I would like yet.
wow looking good, you can get pretty good renders in eevee by turning on some settings and save the cycles render for when you are almost done
I’m liking the lighting you have so far, and @Willrun has a good point. Save the Cycles render for when you’re finished, as Eevee will help save your computer when rendering.
This was my final. But I’ve decided to wait to “learn lighting” until I get a better computer or can get my hands on a better one. I can hardly test lighting in cycles because any change takes a long time to react.
Even though lighting needs attention for computer restrictions, but your work is amazing.
Keep it up.
one thing that might help is changing the amount of light bounces in the scene, and the auto tile add-on decreased my render times a lot. you can also try compositing so you save time on denoising while still removing noise.