Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Darkiste: ahh here we have another critique of a critique lol


(I learned this all via Bill Perkins composition class on New Masters Academy

So, in composition there are these things called Major and Minor keys. Major means the overall values of the image tend to lend towards
High- 1-5 value
Mid- 3-8 value
Low 5-10 Value
(nothing is objective with that, its all ballpark^ though i think a machine could guess well if programmed well)

Minor key is basically the amount of contrast per image. Heres basically a source if you wanna read more:

http://www.sensationalcolor.com/understa...z4PFLRKh1s

Some examples:

High Major low minor
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nY1bO

High Major mid minor
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2xdP

Low Major mid to high minor
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6Yxl5

Mid Major mid minor
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8Kd2n

Low Major low minor
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lvyBO

I could list all variations but you get the idea lol. So no, raising the value contrast is not necessarily the way to make an image better, there are many subtleties and variations value ranges can achieve to set different moods. A good exercise my mentor had me do was take a master painting and make 9 variations of the values to see if i can do it using the sliders (its a feccin, I'll include it below.)

As usual, thank you for the comments and time you put in Darkiste, I will always appreciate it as a fellow last of the Mohicans.


Anyways, here is a 90% imagination figure i did, that felt very satisfying like a good bowel movement. I think had i done this early on, just draw the best figure you possibly can from your mind, then the stuff you get hung up on use reference; would have progressed me much further than scrambling around doing tons of purely imaginative work or purely zoned out reference work with no attention to bettering or designing the reference. 

Another good way is to think of it like a sculpture, you know, your drawing is your sculpture. is it solid? If you turned it an inch would it make sense how its indicated now? Also some Gesture tips i had contemplated on for the week. Tried to make it as immaculate as i could manage; Next week I'll do some features like eyes maybe, since the internet can never get enough eye drawing tutorials ;)

https://pre00.deviantart.net/f152/th/pre...cge9aw.jpg