Phase 6 - Composition experimetation 2 - Photographs for perspective/drawings subjects in and identifying light sources

The next stage in composition experimentation is to draw the characters into the scene to fit within the compositions of the photographs. Since I struggle with perspectives, this will be a good exercise to help me draw things in scale, as well as identifying the light source and shadow placements. My final artworks will incorporate perspective (though I do not know how complicated it will be) so doing this little exercise will help identify some of the problems I generally come across with my drawings, e.g. light source on my character illustrations. 

Quick breakdown on perspective using grid lines to work out where is the vanishing point. 

Adding in characters to fill up the scene.

Adding in light source for light and shadow placements. 

After playing around with the idea of using photographs to aid me with perspective, I personally feel that using photos would help in drawing environments with characters (especially for final artworks) by using the photo as a form of template to draw things in scale, as well as grid lines and vanishing points that can help me place objects/characters accordingly to the perspective. Since I am not confident in drawing environments and sceneries from scratch, photographs can help me set up the composition I want for my illustrations, so I came to the conclusion that from this point I would need to take as many photographs, not random ones if possible, that will potentially serve a purpose for my artworks (for dynamic scenes, atmospheric environments, etc.) particularly the final outcomes. 

Next I will apply the previous formula of experimental composition (using the brush marks to generate negative space to place the illustration in) to the current composition experiments to see if it still works or not, this time taking control where the negative space will be to match with the image’s composition so it doesn’t affect the overall presentation. 

After playing around with the composition using the brush stroke, I feel it still doesn’t work, simply because it somewhat breaks the immersion of the world, with the unnecessary brush marks to generate a border around the image and it feel visually distracting. To conclude the experiments on using negative space with artworks, it simply doesn’t fit together as I thought it would and it does in fact clutter the outcome as a whole which will make it visually unappealing.