[YourMum]

Hi!

I painted this picture to be sketch because I 'm going to paint better one then. I just wanted to try shapes, contrast and composition and stuff like that. But I think that something is wrong (or everything ... uhh...) on pic. Can you help me to find better lighting contrast? Which things are lighter than others? I hope you get the idea where the sun light comes. I know that this one is quite bad but help me, please. Tell every things that come up to your mind. Uhh... I'm going to paint final version in colors.

[Matt Elder]

To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it is. Is that a fence in the foreground with a road running off to the left hand side?

I'm guessing that the wavy stuff is all sky and on the right hand side is a house. If that is the cause, a main problem becomes the sky. On the left hand side the sky is in the background but near the middle of the piccy, it looks like the sky is infront of the house. If this is the case, this needs to be fixed up (unless you are going for abstract).

As for a final version in colour, while this might help differentiate the objects, if the underlying structure is incorrect, it will still look funny. So first up, really try to get set in your mind what exactly it is that you are going to illustrate.

hope this is of some help

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Matt
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