Edward Hopper

From this point the research started to get a tad convoluted as I didn't really know what angle I was going to take. I looked at a number of paintings that had a lot to do with colour and light in an attempt to understand how I wanted my scene to work, but they all felt slightly off, then I looked at Edward Hopper after Hana decided to talk about his representations of indoor light.

Thinking about it now, it wasn't his lighting that I found so striking, but rather the way in which he was able to simply render the areas outside of the light in a way that made them believable without getting too caught up in the little details.