@saritos

Peindre

Hello hello! Still life is a very underrated topic to practice! It's a great theme to take as a value workout which is the main issue here. A good tip when approaching traditional painting is to check your artwork in black n white. You can take the picture with phone and turn the image in black n white version to see if the value read is clear. Also be careful how you construct objects in perspective. Good paintings are built with solid drawing first. A subject is reduced to a few distinct tonal groups, typically no more than three or five, in order to provide powerful light, mid-tones, and shadows.You should only utilize Light, Middle, and Dark tones.For further complexity, use Lightest Light, Light-Mid, Middle-Value, Dark-Mid, and Dark. Starting with three basic values and breaking each value group up into smaller components would be easy. Keep in mind that you must do it subtly. The detail is diminished and your eyes are compelled to concentrate on the main dark and bright shapes. Make everything in shadow the same, rather than altering their dark value. Consequently, a cohesive "form" of darkness is created. Combine various gloomy areas into a single, enormous, continuous, complicated shape rather than having many little, scattered black patches.Use just the strongest contrast (e.g., direct white next to direct black) in the primary point of the artwork to grab the viewer's attention. Keep values closer together (light-mid next to middle, for example) to prevent competing with the focus point in less important portions. Hope it helps!