WIP Week 2 (Démie)

Hello :)

So here's where my project is going.

Here's the drawing. We (Mr. Vinh and I) spent some time during last class to fix an issue with the legs and boots position; I hope the look better now :)

I also took some time home to fix the sketch done in class (precising the lines, mostly) and put some "color sketching". 

Which brings me to a question: we see everywhere that we shouldn't use a perfect white nor black in a painting, to always put a little color into it. So far so good. But with a model such as this one, with black... many things(!), I understand that there's some respect to the value of the subject we have to think about, but as a ruff guide line (made to be broken), if black is 0%, an acceptable "black" on a painting would be what? like 5%? 10%? What would be the "line" not to cross (unless we're consciously breaking that rule) in this matter?

I remembered last minute that we had to do a sketch of the painting with a background (doh!), so here's the idea I had in mind: a solitary "warrioress" holding a yellow/orange flaming torch (in my angle, the sword is but a line with absolutely no interest, so I thought I might change it and "explain" the warm color with it), facing soldier of another clan, holding a blue flaming torch (which would explain the blue light)... 

Maybe I shouldn't try to explain the lighting in such an obvious/grotesque way, or maybe adding silhouettes would push the challenge to high, considering the time we have to complet this, I don't know if those are good ideas!!?! =S