/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4584666
values are usually more important than color.
・ i would suggest this to you:
grab a few pieces of art you really like and admire and which are in a similar direction to this piece.
put em into PS or whatever, add a new layer above them, fill it totally black and set the layer blend mode to "color". this will turn the pieces grayscale (doing this gets more perceptually accurate values than turning saturation to 0, in case you didn't know).
then put your piece next to each other piece, turn yours grayscale the same way, and compare the values.
see how bright they go, how dark they go, where the brightest and darkest values are, how similar values are grouped together into bigger shapes, where the areas of greatest contrast are, the proportions of light to dark, etc.
all in comparison to your own. try to define what separates your work from the work you want it to look like, i think you will get a good idea of how to improve it.
・ another thing to try:
just paint colors into the color layer over those pieces. see how bad you can make it just by altering the colors but not the values.
i think you'll find that no matter what colors you choose, the values, shapes, gesture are really what make each piece basically work. even if the colors are very important to the piece, our brains are just more sensitive to value differences, so if there are both value differences and color differences, the value differences are going to be more dominant.
・ and one more thing:
take those pieces you like, disable the color layer, create a new layer, turn it to luminosity blending mode (might be called brightness depending on what you use), and just fill that layer with a single mid-gray color. now you're looking at just all the colors, with very flattened values. you can compare that to yours too, if you want to compare only the colors.
could possibly help you understand things as well.