@shona37205894

Paintover

I hope this helps, and sorry it took me a while... Firstly, when you are painting you are painting light, and as such you must first understand how light works. When you are painting night-time scenes you must determine what the light source is, if there is moonlight if there is a campfire, candle or something else. In this case you have a fire-flower. Its glow looks like a campfire. so you will light the surroundings according to the rules of campfire light. Secondly, light has something called 'Light-falloff' (do look this up its hella important) but in a nutshell it's how light behaves when you place a subject closer and farther away from light. This means there is a point by which the fire flower's light will 'fall-off' and darkness will be dominant. It also affects how sharp the cast shadows are as well. another thing is that light tells you what color something is. Its because of our ability to see light why we perceive colors. And depending on the intensity of said light it will affect the intensity of the color we are looking at. This is why leaves and trees look like dark blobs at night because there isn't enough luminescence to light them which is why I place a bit of green on the plants by the feet of your character and why the cloak which was originally green still looks green if not a little desaturated. Also, I didn't change any of your brush strokes all I did was remove the colors you had and added them back on a separate layer so you can see the difference. I advise you to do more experiments with light and color. Happy Painting. <3

@um9s

Paintover

Really cool art! I want to know more about them! It can be tough drawing a dark environment, but I'll try my best to help. I noticed that you went a bit crazy with the bounce light. I think some studies on how light interacts with different colours and materials will really help you. -For example, you said the hair, robe, grass, and dress all blended together and that's because these 3 things should be reflecting the light differently. -You mentioned that you thought everything was too dark, but if you were to change your drawing to greyscale, you'll notice that all of your tones are heavily in the grey range and your values mesh together. It would actually benefit your piece by darkening everything. Especially the foreground. A good rule of thumb when doing an environment is to have your foreground be a darker and have higher contrast while your background should be lighter and have less contrast. Because contrast will draw the viewers eye away from your character (focal point). Again, change your image to greyscale and pay attention to how much contrast and attention your background is demanding. You can then compare it with my drawover to see how I try to draw the eye to center. -Speaking of focal points, I think more time thinking about composition before starting your piece could also help! -For example, In your original drawing, you had two trees bracketing your character. Having multiple verticle objects will only compete with your character for attention. You should instead think of ways to use the environment to lead the viewers eye to where you want it. In my drawover, I curved the trees and had them slope toward the character and even the branches point toward the center. Do some thumbnails in the future and your work will instantly improve! I hope this can help you become an even better artist than you already are!

@giraslash95106056

Paintover

Hey there, first of all, I think you did an amazing job regarding the composition. Well done! I also do think that the composition is lit quite well, mainly due to the low contrast. Here's how I'd approach darkening the whole atmosphere, whilst increasing the contrast: Not all values are just "darker" in an environment like this. You still want to maintain your higher values. Instead, you basically just shift around the amount of each value in your composition. More darker values - less lighter values, but initially the value range of your image stays the same. In this case, you treated the values all quite the same, resulting in low contrast. How the colors work together always will be a seperate topic but I think they still do get along here. I hope this helps and keep up the great work!

@xchelia22323334

Paintover

im not sure about your intentions bc you said you want to paint a dark scene but it's quite well lit. the light on the top left and bottom are quite prominent. You need enough contrast to show darkness, so it will be hard when you're trying to portray light everywhere. i would suggest focusing on the red light so the img will have a clear gradient of light to dark. For the value difference in intrinsic colors, it is subjective and you have a lot of leeway for value change when the object is lit by light. The contrasts varies depending on what effect you want to achieve but if you're really unsure, its good to find refs to get a grasp on how much you can modify it. also, adding blue to the background will make it look at night, so the brain connects it to darkness even if it's not that dark. The colors on the previews of what i uploaded looks a bit off so im not sure how it'll turn out.

I feel like butchered your painting but I think you can add light to the character to be the focal point. Also adding atmospheric perspective also helps with that