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need help with values and composition - Raymond_Minnaar - 10-25-2012 Hey fellow awesome people I'm in the process of painting this musketeer dude kicking ass, but it feels like I'm missing and over-thinking things. So I'm here to get a nice honest second opinion First of all values then composition and proportions that's my main concern but any input would be awesome u know what they say 200 heads is better than one thanks Ray Ray out 10 by Raymond Minnaar, on Flickr RE: need help with values and composition - Fredy Martins - 10-28-2012 Hey Raymond, how´re doing man? Great idea you had there. I´d like to help you to improve that illustration, but at first, I might say that I no pro, ok? We are at the same level of skills. A few thing comes to my mind when I look at your image, like: 1. Hey, that´s cool! 2. Something on the proportions may be tweaked 3. I´m not sure about the mechanics of character´s poses - it´s not expressing the action on the scene 4. I think perspective might a little off - that guy in first plane should be bigger, since he´s closer to camera - that building on the background seems to be as huge as a castle 5. That folds and wrinkles are not working right 6. Where´s the light coming from? Is it day, is it night? So, I´m posting some articles from professional artists to help you on those subjects. These are about values and composition Muddy Colors - Composition basics: value structure Muddy Colors - Composition basics: implied line Muddy Colors - Things about planning pictures And here you can find some references for the clothes: Marcus J. Ranum - Stock at Deviantart (be aware of nudity) This one is also about clothes: Selwy - Clothes tutorial Good luck mate and keep up the good work. Cheers! RE: need help with values and composition - Raymond_Minnaar - 10-28-2012 yo man super thanks i did work on the picture quite a bit since I posted this one. 15 by Raymond Minnaar, on Flickr Some of the problems might still be there Ill check out all the links thank you very much