Originally Posted by
DarkOwnt
Interesting. I painted from the reference in the video (see the video link at 18 seconds in), and chose not to make any drastic changes.
When you say the shadow and the background are not playing too nicely what do you mean? I would be reluctant to change too much as it might make things look artificial... had I set up the still life though, you think it would be better to use a fill light (to brighten the shadow) or a light fabric instead of the dark background? Compositionally how would this be an improvement?
Thanks for the kind words.