You have learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice parts that you love so that the work as a whole is just what you want. Good.
Oh, and the black crack in the wall to the right of the balloons fights with the balloons; it is black and sharp, and the poor balloons are round and pastel. No contest. You need to smudge that out a bit so the foreground element comes forward more townad us and that background receeds. If that whole area were a tad darker -- on both sides of the balloons, they might pop a bit more so we read them as being continuous with the boy in the same plane, and forward from that wall. We don't care about that wall, we don't care if light is falling on it. We want it to get out of the way of the conversation between light and rain and the boy. What do you think?
Here is my updated rendition of my concept art. I fixed the lighting and the background bringing more focus to the main subject.
You have learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice parts that you love so that the work as a whole is just what you want. Good.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the black crack in the wall to the right of the balloons fights with the balloons; it is black and sharp, and the poor balloons are round and pastel. No contest. You need to smudge that out a bit so the foreground element comes forward more townad us and that background receeds. If that whole area were a tad darker -- on both sides of the balloons, they might pop a bit more so we read them as being continuous with the boy in the same plane, and forward from that wall. We don't care about that wall, we don't care if light is falling on it. We want it to get out of the way of the conversation between light and rain and the boy. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah! I see what you mean about that crack in the wall still fighting for attention. I'll see what I can do! :-)
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