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[mechapark12]

I see now. With the main back light right in the center, you cannot use it to give the dark side a sense of volume. The characters will look flat no matter what, but if you make the backlight stronger and the shadow darker you can create a dramatic effect that will make everyone forget the flatness, maybe give it a try? You might have to make the background lighter for readability (I know it's cheating, but eh...)

Also, your trees are nice looking!

Hi Leo, yes I will give it a try (haven't forgotten the piece...! Just busy with drawing other things and work).

And thank you! It's mostly just following along with how Nathan Fowkes paints. His stuff is really gorgeous.

Maybe I could make a suggestion about the laying down guy? I see that you are decreasing the width of the body as it goes back in space, which is obviously one component of perspective. It's almost working, but maybe even more important to the illusion of perspective than size, is overlap. Your forms don't quite want to be in front of each other yet.

So like the above is an exaggerated version of what I want to happen. Each major part is in front of the other. Arms in front of ribcage in front of pelvis in front of legs, in front of feet. Emphasizing those lines overlapping makes it feel more convincing probably than even decreasing the size properly.

I don't know if this is exactly what you want for this, like it might not be perfectly in the right perspective, but I think you could use the idea of it. If we saw those overlapping lines going round his body like in the above picture, even if just in the folds of the fabric, it could make it more convincing.

Also I had a glance at a photo as reference, which was helpful since when you're laying in this position, your chest is going to be stretched, and your stomach should sink in. Just something I find mentionable since I didn't really think of that at first.

Hi Joseph, yes I'll give this one a try. Still working on it slowly... haha.

I'll give it a try to look at more photo references, though I wish Google would give me search results that are more favourable (constantly showing angles that unfortunately don't help me as much as specific angles that'll help with this piece).

I'm still drawing, some half-way done studies that I will try and finish tomorrow. Trying to integrate what I've picked up from the landscape painting workout series by Nathan Fowkes into the portrait.




I drew more than this, but most of it is nsfw artwork as a form of relaxation. lol