Piccolo x Dr Strange

 

Final poster

I took the release of "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" as opportunity to color this image. I drew this as a part of Dragon Ball x MCU poster mini project.

In the process of coloring, I soon realized this piece was boring. After some thinking and panicking, I vaguely recalled the 70-30 rule of composition. I promptly search Youtube for videos to strengthen my understanding and found this video useful: Best kept composition secret - the 30-70 rule

In my case, I decided that 70% of the figure would be in shadows and the remaining 30% would be lit. The result is the following image.

After applying 30-70 rule

The image was still boring. On hindsight, the reason was because I did not plan the final composition. I began playing around with different methods to save this painting. One of such experiments resulted in this.

Dr-r-r-.. Strange-ange-nge-...

It was not bad, but it did not solve the problem with the lower portion of the image: either it was empty (by including only 1 set of legs) or extremely busy (by including all sets of legs). At that point it occurred to me to change the image orientation to landscape and the final poster above was the outcome.

Lesson learned: plan the final composition from the beginning.