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Quick digital colour study

Just something I did while on a train with nothing else going on.

Now I'm looking at it again, it feels like the face is too prominent and too warm. To take this further, I'd try to darken the face a little, plus darken more around the head and silhouette of the shoulders to hopefully push them further back. Of course, I could also spend time trying to get a likeness but that wasn't the goal of the exercise.

It's interesting to see how chromatic/saturated this kind of material gets. I think the pink feathery stuff transmits light and makes it more intensely colourful. It was also nice to see how colour temperature can tell the story of which planes are facing in which directions. At least it seems to me that the cool blue light tells a story of what faces upwards.

Since my train journey finished I could not take it further, and some things like the colour of the jewellery I did not have time to really take a go at.

The film is Wittgenstein directed by Derek Jarman by the way.

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