Basically would like to express that found both exercises very useful as a start, they are not so easy as would maybe look at first.
Regarding my computer which is a laptop from 2011, well it turned out that can not have too many shots during the weeks, as 500 samples rendered in 2 hours 🙂 But as mentioned somewhere already here, I focused so far mostly on modeling, being not so much familiar with these next phases as S&L.
Anyway the nature of this class seems slightly different than the before ones, sometimes just 3-4 clicks here and there by human and the rest is waiting for the result from the computer 🙂

Week 1 – Lighting a Simple Bedroom
As you can see above here tried some versions till calibrating the required angle, in general being satisfied with re-producing it, hopefully the strength also fits around to have gradients, this is the one which is selected as final
https://www.cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/16583

For the night one just had two renders and this seccond one liked it inspite of being aware, that not perfectly match

Week 1 – Shading a Toy Truck
Here with the colors just had one target to have a visually pleasing result for my 1,5 year old baby girl, so this is a mostly girl truck 🙂
https://www.cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/16582