Comment 55681
Comment ID 55681
![[Art] Miyuki](https://storage.googleapis.com/paperdemon-prod-la/submissions/thumbs/art_img_thumb_11783_5d3dec0faec9064f860a64269fad50ec5ebf18340e538.jpg)
Very nice work. Good composition, good character design and interesting background.
What could be improved is contrast. There is very little change in value across the whole piece--there aren't any really dark, darks anywhere. The whole thing is comprised almost entirely of middle tones. There are a few really light areas but they don't stand out because the shaded areas are too light.
I would really recommending going back with a softer lead (I read that you usually work with regular mechanical pencils, right?--you may want to either buy some softer drawing pencils--like 2B or 4B--for shading if you're going to continue to work in graphite) and working in some deeper shadows.
In black and white, that contrast is really important because there aren't color values to add contrast. Right now your character blends into the background.
Also, right now there's no visible light sorce because we can't see any real shadows being cast.
I was going to sort of upload an example of what I was talking about but my programs are being difficult. So I thought I'd print it, shade the print out and rescan it back in...but my *printer* is being difficult. So meh.
At any rate, hope my thoughts helped.
(I just noticed the grinning face in the tree. Creepy...it looks kinda...evil.)
What could be improved is contrast. There is very little change in value across the whole piece--there aren't any really dark, darks anywhere. The whole thing is comprised almost entirely of middle tones. There are a few really light areas but they don't stand out because the shaded areas are too light.
I would really recommending going back with a softer lead (I read that you usually work with regular mechanical pencils, right?--you may want to either buy some softer drawing pencils--like 2B or 4B--for shading if you're going to continue to work in graphite) and working in some deeper shadows.
In black and white, that contrast is really important because there aren't color values to add contrast. Right now your character blends into the background.
Also, right now there's no visible light sorce because we can't see any real shadows being cast.
I was going to sort of upload an example of what I was talking about but my programs are being difficult. So I thought I'd print it, shade the print out and rescan it back in...but my *printer* is being difficult. So meh.
At any rate, hope my thoughts helped.
(I just noticed the grinning face in the tree. Creepy...it looks kinda...evil.)
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