Legion Sketches

[Legion Brewer]

I think local color was a very good tip!!
Right now you have everything background, figure, creature covering almost the same range of values.
That doesn't give a good read on the picture. So do use different local values while staying consistent with the lighting.

Zoom way until it's a thumbnail out and if someone who hasn't seen the pic before can instantly tell what's on it - that's a good read. :)

Whoa, lightbulb just went on. So, essentially I should choose an appropriate value range for each element in the piece and light it according to the range in order to make a distinction between things. I'm not sure why this hasn't occurred to me yet, but thanks for reinforcing it. It went over my head in Hobitts post. Really happy I came here to post, learning things already.