@saritos

Peindre

Hello hello! Very cool composition! I like the rich storytelling of her powers! The main issue is value grouping. It's important that we convert images in black n white in the middle of the process. A good portion of the picture was in lightened which loses focal point on the light side. In order to create strong light, mid-tones, and shadows, a complicated scene is simplified into a few distinct tonal groups, usually no more than three or five.Just Light, Middle, and Dark tones should be used.Use Lightest Light, Light-Mid, Middle-Value, Dark-Mid, and Dark for further intricacy. It would be simple to begin with three fundamental values and then divide each value group into smaller parts. Remember that you need to be subtle when doing it.at your reference or subject image. Your eyes are forced to focus on the primary dark and bright shapes while the detail is reduced. Instead of changing the dark value of the things you have in shadow, make them all the same. As a result, a unified "shape" of darkness is produced. Instead of having numerous little, dispersed black patches, combine disparate shadowy areas into a single, huge, continuous, complex shape.To draw the viewer's attention, only use the strongest contrast (such as direct white adjacent to direct black) in the artwork's main point. To avoid competing with the focal point in less significant sections, keep values closer together (light-mid adjacent to middle, for example). To view a simplified version of your reference in applications like Photoshop, apply a "Posterize" tool or a Gradient Map. Hope it helps!