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And a final thing, is to on your next piece is think about shadow placement; The only shadows on this one are under the boobs, the neck, the seagull, and the rocks. I took tons of notes on this recently, but there are so much you can do with shadows. And the instructor said that the beginner mistake in composition is to not consider how powerful they are. I promise you, placing a shadow from something perhaps off screen or within the scene can totally enhance an image. Imagine like a regular face, then put it in evening time, then in the woods with checkered leaves cutting the light from reaching the face, but some still gets through. There's nothing really technical about that, it just looks cool.

Same with the ocean, like theres deviantart called alberich, who does some stuff you'd benefit hugely to glance at ands study

https://www.deviantart.com/alberich/gallery/?offset=0

This dude isnt held back by gravity and balance and his sense of light and shadow is phenomenal. and its underwater!