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[maggie]

I absolutely agree that I need more studies. A lot more, especially in color! There's no question in that.
When I started this a year ago I knew I can't draw from imagination. Today I still can't haha. The only reason I'm trying to finish this painting is because I want to make it a Christmas present. And if I wait until I'm good enough, I'll never finish it, as stupid as this may sound.

So anyway, I started watching shaddy safadi's videos, they are definitely very useful! Thanks a lot.

And to answer your questions:
The background is a photo study - I liked the perspective? how you can see the tower. Also the colors are nice and I thought since I can't create my own palette, I could use colors from a photo.
Usually I would not do that, but I have to finish this at any cost, so right now cheating doesn't bother me that much.
So background is photo study, characters are from imagination (their colors too)
Here's the photo.
I don't want to make a super realistic background and some very stylised characters, that would look weird. I will simplify the background and make the characters a bit more realistic.. idk I'll try to find some balance between both things.

My question is - do you think the characters' colors seem out-of-place/weird? Because the photo has very limited palette with lots of desaturated purples and some saturated orange/yellow. No greens like on the jacket. Also the black on the photo is actually very dark greyish violet which confuses me. I use the same color on the guy's jacket and it doesn't seem black?



I know this won't be some awesome piece that will change my life etc. I'm pretty sure I will be disappointed by the result as I am most of the times. I just really want to make this present and I think it would mean a lot even if its not very good technically.