Spooky Night, part 1
February 26th, 2008 by Adam McMahon
Okay, okay, so I slipped back into value mode tonight. But I needed to in order to first think about composition. I'd like to do a full environment piece in the future and I always wanted to do a spooky Castle Dracula location. Pretty generic, yes. But I'd like to start here and work it into something more unique. I'm going to have to do some reseach for this one. It's going to be fun.
The interesting thing was, already after just a week of doing these color sketches, I was already thinking of color as I worked on this piece.
Posted in Digital Paintings
I like this a lot. A couple of things I think could make it a little stronger, though. There is a dark value to the right of the path that takes the eye past the castle and out of the picture. I would mkae the castle bolder agaisnt the night skiy, abd I think the foreground object on the left plus the moon puts a little too much weight on that side of the composition. Obviously, just my thoughts as I’m a complete amateur at composition.