Hong! welcome to the forum!
(by the way, get doodle to come back I remember his work was beautiful.... I miss hearing from him)
I have to say, my initial thoughts mirrored those of Monastic Bat and Stecyk66. I didn't see anything particularly wrong with what you had on your site. And truthfully, I still don't. I like the work you have on your site [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] . (and stecyk's description of gestural... fits)
But I'm not the one who needs to be happy with your work -- you are. So let me see if I can say anything interesting about the topic.
Here are links to some of your works that I think have the right idea as far as backgrounds go. .I would not change anything on these images.
Hong's morning image
Hong's Sigol
Hong's portrait 1
now here is my question is this one of the images where you are dissatisfied with your background?
Hong, is this one of the one's that has a background that bothers you?
You see, when I looked at that image, I thought... "this is so pretty and impressionistic. I don't want to see more detail in the background. .. more detail would marr the impressionistic style of this image". Hong, this is one person's opinion... mine [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Ok so here is my theory on one of many ways to create a background:
Sometimes, the "subject" and the "background" contrast each other in level of detail and brightness of color. At least that seems like part of the truth.
So I look at that picture above and since it is a beautiful, impressionistic image of a smiling youth I ask myself, if I'm trying to create a background and give it less detail....well we can't get much less detailed than you have it ( having the subject be detailed and the background be less detailed is one of many tricks to creating a suitable background).
Or maybe you could darken the background colors. ... even that solution doesn't seem to fit. . . I like the image the way it is... to add more detail or change the colors would change the style of your image. .. and it is your style that I find so enchanting, Hong.
But in future images, I really like Vellen's suggestion of blocking you image. (this goes back to one of my other favorite topics... composition which is always a good way to discipline your image.
You may have fun looking at this thread from way back in this forum's history... don't know if it will help
It started as a posting from BR and grew and grew [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] . .. in truth, there is nothing specifically addressing backgrounds in that thread but there were some thought provoking ideas about art termsin that thread.
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I hope I didn't muddy the colors....
have fun, Hong, and thank you for posting =)
Athena
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