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So, again, I'll say this through and through, but when you're trying to establish a piece
that has a specific intention, a specific design, such as something like a human body
or a tree, or an apple, you want to be really paying attention to the details that you would
create such as if you were drawing them. If that's the effect that you're going for, which
is certainly the effect I'm going for. So, again, in the example of this piece it was
very important to me that the face have a specific position, a specific turn, that the
light source is coming from a specific area. So in thinking of those things while I'm working,
those are the choices in paper that I'm making, when I'm trying to establish my shadows and
my highlights. So it is very important that if you want to achieve this sort of popping
out effect, this very realistic effect, you want to make sure that the value tones, and
the highlight tones, are conducive to what they would be if you were to paint or draw
this piece to make it look more like a photograph or realistic.