is this composition good?

[Bag]

Hey man, i took the freedom to do a quick paintover :) Doesn't seem like too many do that here, which is a shame.. but any way:



In a pic like this, where you want the rim lighting and back lighting and all that cool stuff, you kinda need to push the darks. If your shadows aren't dark, that cool rimlight wont really look light at all. Regarding shadows, most of what will be lit up in the shadow should come from reflected light, I def overdid the darks, had i spent more time on i would have added more reflected light and tried to define his pecs and abs etc with that.

And one last thing, me recommendation would be to leave the phototextures for now, focus on learning how to paint with standard brushes, then start trying custom brushes, and then finally move on to integrating photos (if you want). If you want to use photos, everything kinda has to have that same detail level (or illusion of that detail level). Feng Zhu has a great video that explains it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...g-aFq6BbKw)

But like i said, leave all that jazz for later ;)

hope it helps!