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[boneman65]

How does one fix to bring to front??

 

[boneman65]

darn its sideways........

 

[splasha]

Do you mean - bring the building on the left, to the foreground? - or place it to the front of what looks like a wing?
Either should not be too difficult to do as you already have the building to guide you.
To bring it forward, carry the lines of the outside edge of the building down through the other structure, then erase the lines of the "wing" for wont of a better description.
This will effectively move it to the front - where I assume you wish it to appear to be, giving the appearance of the gargoyle being behind the structure - if this is the desired effect.

 

[haasje dutchairbrush]

Depth / illusion of size is generaly created by:
Perspective. (a road looked at from the front gets smaller and smaller)
Reference to other objects in a painting (a circle in front of a tree looks like a football, a circle next to a tree could be the moon)
Color (grey scale).

In this case you have gre scales to work with. In general stuff that is more to the back will be more blurry, have vaguer outline (either not tight or lighter colors) and go less dark.

In this case you can force the wing more to the foreground by giving it more contrast in it's light and dark values. You already went pretty dark in the background but if you keep the highlights in the forground white or near white it will create the illusion the darks are darker.

What I often do when doing black and whites with backgrounds this eleborate is reducing the pigment of the paint a lot which makes it hard to go to dark. I than force myself to go no darker than 50-75% of the maximum opacity of the black saving the real darks for the foreground. If needed you can always go darker when you have the foreground in.

 

[boneman65]

thanks all....i seem to keep saying to myself not too dark not too dark....then i go to dark........guess its a practice thing

 

[Boltcase]

thanks all....i seem to keep saying to myself not too dark not too dark....then i go to dark........guess its a practice thing

I do the same thing way to often. I always try to find the darkest parts then it seems to be easier to determine the light and medium tonal areas. Just wish I could follow that philosphy better than I do .

 

[Madbrush]

thanks all....i seem to keep saying to myself not too dark not too dark....then i go to dark........guess its a practice thing

You need to use the reverse psychology thing, just keep saying to yourself "not too light, not too light" and voilà Job Jobbed

 

[boneman65]

why does the title have (solved) in it....still not to forum suave....

 

[splasha]

Don't stress about it, boneman, you'll soon get the hang of the navigation thing around here.
It's really pretty good compared to some others I've been too.

 

[WhiteKnight]

why does the title have (solved) in it....still not to forum suave....

For some reason the thread had been marked as solved not too sure by whom, I corrected this

 

[Carnun]

You need to use the reverse psychology thing, just keep saying to yourself "not too light, not too light" and voilà Job Jobbed

Actually... @Madbrush is kindof right... by focusing on "not too dark"... you are still actually focusing on painting dark. Better to actually just focus on painting lightly... its a bit of a mind trick, but its about being focused on the right attitudes...

saying that... I always go too dark too fast... I treat my airbrush like a ball point pen most of the times!

 

[Madbrush]

For some reason the thread had been marked as solved not too sure by whom, I corrected this

Sea monkey did it