I softened the shadows a little and bolded the highlights… this was a process done more by muscle memory… I used very watered down paint and many, many, many strokes… almost a dry brush technique, if that can be done with a watery brush.
I didn’t run with the though of overpainting the with weirdness in the lower left corner… it started to feel right living there.
As I was finishing this one off, a better composition started to form in my head…
Stay tuned for how that process worked out.