My first try at tonal design:

I felt that this work is rly hard for me to see the edges. there was something off about it. Might be more contrast.

2nd try:

Woon lam then told me to define more edges like this:

And so I tried one last time to do it and decided to go with that for my final:

I feel like I’ve improved in knowing what I want to hide and what I want the viewer to see.

So since my composition involved clouds, I researched on John Constable’s clouds

But then to include more depth I had to include land too..so I decided to get some book on Monet’s trees

But this didn’t give me an idea on how I could composite my shot. I browsed through some comic books woon lam brought to class and took some pictures. I thought that these look dynamic and could help me get an interesting composition.

So then after some research, i proceeded on to trying out my compositions:

I tried using the comic book dynamic composition but I felt it wasn’t working out, In my other compositions I thought I could use the direction of the branches of the trees and the necks of the horses to keep the viewer in the painting.

I also researched on some poses on horses.

The picture of the bones helped to understand the basic form of the horse.

Then I came up with my final composition.

Feedback:

• still need more layers to get more depth

Here are my photos I took for my composition:

As you can see they consist of architecture and lots of humans and straight lines. I found that to be my weakness as I feel like I can draw more organic items better.

So I decided on a unicorn flying through the clouds and this would be my first composition:

Feedback:

• lacking depth, layers and design
• make use more of compositing my painting