07-01-2013, 10:21 PM
Sup dude, seems like you're playing around with values of the background vs. the character. One useful exercise I had to do in my first figure drawing class was deciding whether the figure was a dark on light read or a light on dark read, and making the entire figure lighter or darker than the background. This is simpler than what you see in real life, but it helps the whole figure read as one silhouette. So you might want to try doing that instead of having some parts that are lighter and some that are darker.