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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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this is pretty awesome! Good job on the shadowing and light. But, I think it could be pushed even a bit further! (Or at least in a future artwork, no need to actually make these changes since this is like, you know, a while back.) -- By looking at your older work I see that you did really try to open up and use more color in the shadows than keeping everything neutral gray-ish. Good job on that, it's a first step!
I'd have made the walls a little bit brighter though, to increase the contrast and really make the feeling of light pop like a photo. While the shadow in the distance and at the rear of the door way should be blue as you have it here, the shadow up to the closest edge to us should be graded to become a little warmer in tone, and even a little lighter. This is caused from the reflected light of the opposite wall and ground shining up and illuminating some of the interior of this corridor.
Lastly, contrast can be a major assistance to your center of focus. The yellow lines help keep our eyes centered on the girl, but something even better is if the shadow cast by the building didn't go so far as to the far distant wall. If the far wall were lit up in sunlight, with the girl in the shadow, we'd have the strongest change in contrast RIGHT at her upper torso/head. That'd make for a strong and attractive silhouette!
Keep it up!
-- Also just read you did this with a mouse. Geez, that's amazing. GET ONE, even a $40 Monoprice tablet if you can't afford a wacom, I'd love to see what you can do then!
Thanks a bunch for the tips, too. I'm still a bit scared of color, which is part of why I love your work so much. I'll definitely keep all of this in mind for my next piece, especially the stuff about contrast.
And actually it wasn't done with a mouse! My tablet just happened to break the day after I was done with this artwork, ha ha. I've got a new one now, so all is good.
And just... thanks again for the comment, your artwork is really inspiring to me!