07-09-2013, 04:18 AM
Hey ruffledo,
did you try shrinking the piece down to a much smaller size to look at the forms themselves? Like did you start with some thumbnails or roughs ? If not I would go back into that part of the process and just block in the forms structurally (like make 10-20 quick ones) and see how the composition works best...perhaps even post them here first and then go from there.
As for its current state - turn it into values and see whats happening with the depths. Right now the foreground claw has the same or almost the same value as the background claw..and the figure is getting lost in the middle. This might be able to work as a "C" style composition if you played around with those three forms a bit more value wise and location wise.
did you try shrinking the piece down to a much smaller size to look at the forms themselves? Like did you start with some thumbnails or roughs ? If not I would go back into that part of the process and just block in the forms structurally (like make 10-20 quick ones) and see how the composition works best...perhaps even post them here first and then go from there.
As for its current state - turn it into values and see whats happening with the depths. Right now the foreground claw has the same or almost the same value as the background claw..and the figure is getting lost in the middle. This might be able to work as a "C" style composition if you played around with those three forms a bit more value wise and location wise.