Here's a new piece I'm working on, I'm just having trouble finishing it off.
This is where it all started:
I really like it, but it's boring on its own and there's no real composition to speak of. Then when I started adding a background and what-not it all became too busy. So I figured the only way for me to tame it would be to try limit my pallet somewhat and try bring more contrast between the dude, the particles, and the background. This made me sad, because if you look at the top, how awesome does that glowy blue look? Then lower down, how awesome does that glowy green look? And the red? The yellow? The pink?... Yeah, I love all of those colours, and I want all of them to feature in some way. So anyways, begrudgingly, I set off and did a couple million variations. It was really difficult to decide, but in the end I'm settling on this:
... or this?
I can't decide!
I like how the first one has strong contrast, but I feel the colour of the particles is too plain and lifeless.
I like the dynamic of the second one - but then it doesn't have the same kind of oomph as the first. I also don't like the turqouise in the gradient transition - any way I could avoid this?
And I feel I need to do something more interesting with the colour of the b-boy himself, or do you think its better keeping his clothes the same hue? - I felt I needed to do it like that, or he gets lost in the particles.
What do you think of the compostion? Is it too centred, too boring? I tried experimenting a little with something just floating in the middle of the page:
But I was lacking in direction with that idea, and nothing ever really came together properly.
Do you think a background like the one I've got is interesting enough? The thing is I don't want it to be plain black, but at the same time I want it to be dark so that the glow stands out nicely.
