Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

I really love the rendering ! really looking like pastel stuff and it's great ! The volume is well rendered but i think you can push the contrast a little bit more to make it more readable ! I just played with the levels adjustment to show you how close you are to make it really better ! It's a bad habit i have too, to be quite afraid to push the contrast, i think when you do it you see how your previous work looks muddy and kinda lacking some life ! Anyway keep it up Joe !

Thanks, yeah I kind of agree, and I thought someone might say that. I messed with the levels a bunch and was on the fence about how much contrast I wanted to make it look strong, but not wanting to depend on always using high contrast to make things work. Things should be able to work at a high key or a low key, I think in this case you're right though, it just looks better with the black behind it.