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Before I ended up going with the version that became Tomorrow , this was another version I was working on. You can still see the unfinished pencil marks in places--and obviously it is very rough. Had I continued with this version, I would have filled in and edited the colors more, defined the feathers, gave it feet- you know, those kinds of things. And I probably would have touched up the background a bit.

So why did I abandon this version? Because I felt that even after refining the colors and details of the raven, the contrast between the dark bird and dark background was so little that I didn't think it would look very good. Sure, sometimes an all-dark picture can work. But then the problem here is that I have an extremely contrasting part: those white areas in the background. I felt that would have competed too strongly with what I wanted to be the actual focus of the piece. That was also the ending point for me--I figured that I would spend endless amounts of time trying to fix that and counter the problem, only to have the problem remain, regardless.

Thoughts?

Description
Before I ended up going with the version that became Tomorrow , this was another version I was working on. You can still see the unfinished pencil marks in places--and obviously it is very rough. Had I continued with this version, I would have filled in and edited the colors more, defined the feathers, gave it feet- you know, those kinds of things. And I probably would have touched up the background a bit.

So why did I abandon this version? Because I felt that even after refining the colors and details of the raven, the contrast between the dark bird and dark background was so little that I didn't think it would look very good. Sure, sometimes an all-dark picture can work. But then the problem here is that I have an extremely contrasting part: those white areas in the background. I felt that would have competed too strongly with what I wanted to be the actual focus of the piece. That was also the ending point for me--I figured that I would spend endless amounts of time trying to fix that and counter the problem, only to have the problem remain, regardless.

Thoughts?