Comrade Hero and Graviton Girl WIP

Rough Draft
Rough Draft in Grayscale

Here is a very rough draft of my piece for Comrade_Hero painted on top of a screenshot I took today. Don't pay too much attention to color at this point because this is purely a lighting and composition study. I was emphasizing the scene being at dusk.

I chose Atlas Park for the background because Comerade Hero and Graviton Girl are two of Comrade_Hero's first heroes, and I am sure Atlas Park is where most of us cherish some noobish memories. Also Atlas holding the globe symbolizes another day that the heroes carried the world through.

I am very much open for critique and suggestions as I am set out to do the best painting I have ever done. Seeing what an awesome collection Comrade_Hero has, nothing short of the very best I can do is going to cut it. One thing I can see already from the graysclae image is that I made some dark areas too dark, although it was because I only used the darkest and the lightest values on the main figures so they get the most attention.