03-21-2016, 03:09 PM
Hey man, good stuff. Check your sketch as you go. I think you are losing some of the power in the sketch. There are some nice diagonals of the branches behind the throne that you are missing in your value work. Also the sketch feels more intimate a view in scale which I think works better, so I would make the character a bit larger. You have some nice foreshortening in the sketch which isn't coming through in the value work because you've hidden most of the chair with that flat robe. I'd like to see more of the character fitting into that intital sketch foreshortening. Tweaking things as you go is fine, but be careful not to lose the good stuff. That's what the legwork is for...to solve those fundamentals so you don't have to as you paint!
*Edit, ok I realised what you posted was flipped, but the value scheme and emphasis suggested in the sketch despite being a simple gradient is working better than the value sketch. The comp also feels a bit too top heavy and symmetrical with the larger amount of dark value at the top of the canvas than was in the sketch.
*Edit, ok I realised what you posted was flipped, but the value scheme and emphasis suggested in the sketch despite being a simple gradient is working better than the value sketch. The comp also feels a bit too top heavy and symmetrical with the larger amount of dark value at the top of the canvas than was in the sketch.