Week 2: Tonal Value

Week 2 of Visual Studies AS2. Focusing on Tonal value and how to create a piece using black and white from the start to build up tone manually and develop it so that it can help create depth. With the landscape painting, I planned to show the sheer size of the monolith using perspective. This can be seen within my thumbnails, and although I am proud of the final concept, I feel that the piece lacks the feeling I was aiming for as in the perspective I decided to do the piece the size isn't as obvious. However, I figured looking down on the monolith could benefit my work as I could include more of the background of which I need to improve. However, I feel that the tonal value I used within the background of the piece fit well with the fact it is in the distance and helped convey that as it is less saturated than the foreground of the image. However, as seen on the black and white version of the image I struggled with bringing out the contrast and all the tones look rather similar. I think I could tackle this less precariously if I was too approach this task again. I attempted a complementary colour palette and tried to use the character as a focal point with the image and I feel this didn't create as much focus with the monolith. I think that I should further consider the rule of thirds with my next landscape as I understand that this can help with immediate recognition of the focal point.

The study of the master painting was what I enjoyed most with this week as I have greater skill with drawing people. I attempted to challenge myself with this study so that I could learn about tonal value used within real-life paintings but also gain some understanding of a more complicated pose and have to practise with a busier and less straight forward piece.