Texture trouble

[Amit Dutta]

Cool, I've never seen his stuff, it's pretty sweet. The things that strike me most about his images are that his compositions are very very strong. They have to be because for the most part his backgrounds are often very simple and abstract but heavily designed with shape and flow in mind. They are also mostly in natural settings.
His figures are mostly naked or loosely draped and are carrying symbolic things and are lit predominantly by a soft diffuse glowy type of lighting which add to that otherworldly quality. And yes the poses are definitely more romantic than illustrative.

I just got all that from looking at his images. . So I think you should be aiming to work those elements into your value sketch so that they are explicit. You need to demonstrate all that in your value sketch so that the viewer gets it. That's the real test of your success.

Anyway I've suggested a method, so I think you have a basic idea of how you can play with ideas at this stage and hopefully push it on to a decent folio piece. I might bow out now, because I've already procrastinated way too long, but I'll check in on updates if you have them, though probably won't give as much crit. Good luck!