Elf procession by Dado

So here is my submission for Light and Shadow study.
My brother Danijel is a huge fan of LOTR so this one is for him ;)
It started with an idea of solitary horseman in forest, with strong beam of light hitting the ground. From there I went forward and tried to explore different compositions and color keys. All of them were done on Nintendo DS, using an awesome program called Colors, as the painting was getting into a finished form I pulled it into Photoshop and finished it there. Cheers!

Ok, so for the first painting exploration, I think we could try something with 2 of the most important things in paint; light, shadow, and the colours that go through, between and around them. Also lets try and use the shadow as a compositional element if not the main element.

Lets try and focus on the reflective and refractive light, there should lots of colours going on there all the time, and hey, why not accentuate the beautiful. hehe. Go for it !!@ color doodle dump.