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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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A good composition will pull together, tonally, when viewed from afar, or when reduced to the size of a postage stamp. This one breaks apart. It does that because the contrasts are equally intense and evenly distributed. As a result, contrast does not identify and support the center of interest (CI).
A good rule of thumb is to put the most intense contrast at the primary center of interest - make sure that nothing else in the composition equally competes with it for attention.
So one way to approach a fix is to graduate the intensity of contrasting elements using more gray tones for secondary and tertiary CIs and save the hard black/white contrasts for the primary CI
This is why pencils must be interpreted by the inker, because until the ink is applied, one cannot fully appreciate which way the composition will go. And it is why spotting blacks and deciding the tonal scheme was traditionally the inker's responsibility. (Reis, Finch, doesn't matter who. Pencils are only preliminary compositions. You have authority when it comes to defining the tonal scheme, so don't be afraid to use it that power!
I'll sure have them in mind from now on!
You've got some nice works on your gallery!
If you see something here you would like to color, just send me a note with your e-mail. I'll send you a High-res file..