Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Thanks Fedodika and Roanna for the feedback. :)

Played around with my vlaue comp again to see if I could improve on it. Decided to add white to my value plan taking it to 5 values instead of the original 4 and decided to drop all of the vlaues of her clothes making them 1 value lighter as I wanted to go for more of a mystical look and really make her pop from the background.

Been reading up on gamut masking and tried it in photoshop but I'm no good at mixing colours in the programme so I decided to whip out the gouache paints and try mixing my colours traditonally. Limited my pallette to 5 colours which were:

. Titanium White
. Cad Yellow Light
. Ultramarine
. Alizarin Crimson
. Burnt Sienna

Looked at some illustrations that I liked the colour scheme of and tried to emulate them. Liked her colours in the first one but not the background so re did it and pasted her on top. Still not 100% on it but I'm gonna go with the 2nd choice, emulate it in photoshop and have a go at painting it next week when I'm off rather than constantly trying to improve it when I should really be moving on since this is the best I can do atm. (Colours aren't 100% accurate here, generally all colours are lighter than they appear here.)