Value Color

First off, I love ribbon dancing. If I was graceful enough to pull it off, that would be my chosen career path. Well, maybe just in the top 5. Anyway, I wanted to incorporate that somewhere in the semester, so I chose to do it for my value project with color. I looked at a lot of different pictures, and got a sense for the movement of the ribbon and the dancer. I made quite a few sketches of what kind of composition I wanted, and ended up with this. My instructor didn't like that the background was a solid color, and told me to make it have variants like the figure and the ribbon. I had already tried that and it was too distracting. I got points taken off anyway, but whatever, I still like it like this. :) We had a few color schemes to choose from, and I chose complementary.