Andrea Maya - Week #8 Homework

Hi Nino, 

First time working on a full "creative" illustration. I haven't taken any illustration classes before, just a bunch of studies about fundamentals and techniques, so creating a composition is still new to me and I've been struggling with it.

I want to paint a first approach to what I imagine some characters I want to (properly) design in the future could look like. The characters are a girl that owns a repair café and her robot cat.

REF:

Some sketches:

This is what I have done so far, yet I'm not happy with the composition, I guess the last one from the picture above works better since (I think) adding space on the left and the smaller figures help with readability, so I might go back to fix that.

Another thing I would like you to help me with is the lighting, I got lost and I don't now how to boost the composition with it while keeping it believable.

Thanks,

Andrea