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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
Alex, with the light I was trying to keep a bleached feeling to the back face, where the light erases the form to a certain extent.
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I know you said you wanted to keep this as is, but I had a few thoughts for the future: What if you lowered the overall value slightly? This would push that figure back. You could still maintain a bleached look by lowering the contrast between light and shadow.
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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
I also felt that the dark.. . . needed to be kept rougher in order to have the fore-figure's details a contrast to it.
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I like this idea a lot. You could keep the sketchy, rough quality and still do the above.
Of course there may be other much better ways.
I was just thinking that you often seem to concentrate your energy and attention on one figure in a composition, the focal point, and maybe spend a little less energy on the others. I think you could bring your work to a higher level if you gave more attention to working through the problems of the secondary figures. I am not referring to lack of detail, which I realize is a conscious decision.