spending my evening looking at the backgrounds of Pre-Raphaelite paintings to help me with the background of an illustration I'm working on that's got a bit of an uneven composition to it
The WIP. I'd love to go the route of having decorative vines of leaves or something but I don't want to lose the power of the orange background.
I suppose there's a route along these lines that won't sacrifice the orange. Potentially with the option to have some green in there too, which I would like to make work if I could
Anyway this feels like a breakthrough artwork and I'm hoping to do more stuff like this now.
Beginning to work in the leaves and add a bit of depth to balance out the composition. I also need to change my hair and skin tone back to something warm, sort Rusty the cat out, and I want the chair leg to be the same colour as my jumper. I'm now beginning to worry about the lack of detail in the skirt but that's something to reconsider later on.
Don't think I'm far off now. Rusty's face needs some serious work though. And more detail in the skirt on the bottom left maybe?
The finished piece. Self portrait of me and my baby boy
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@sullybiker thanks!