Can this be salvaged?? ): (limited time)

[kool-ka-lang]

Okay, so this was for a "mixed media" thing, and our teacher was like, "do what ever you want."

Now, he's a nice guy, and he encouraged us to experiment and stuff. But now, I think I experimented too much.

I screwed up the city part, it's barely recognizable, because of all the trashy-ness. I was going for trashy and grungy, but it just look poo now.

basically, How can I make this thing easier on the eyes, and easier to read/understand?

it's based off of the quote :feed a guy a fish, you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish, and you feed them for a life time.

Please Help me. There might be perspective and anatomy issues, but I'm not worried about those:it's colours and readability I'm looking crits for.

[wild thing]

If it's mixed media, why not use construction paper or paints? Something that would really define it. Even little its of yellow construction paper as lights on in the windows. Just try not to make it stand out too much, or you'll lose on atmospheric perspective.

Probably not the best advice, just what I'd do in that situation.

[kool-ka-lang]

Oh yeah, I forgot, here's the materials we're allowed to use:

colored pencil
paper
ink pen
other pics(collage)
pencil
oil pastel
acrilyc paint.

I could use construction paper, but...I don't have construction paper on hand right now. :p and I'm afraid it'll make on part stand out too much...I was thinking as to what colours to use in areas to make it look more...cohesive?

[Adam Nowak]

Hmm... and redoing it to your liking more wouldn't be possible? I do that once in a while if I screw something up to the point of throwing it away.

Right now everything has tons of color and I got lost for a few seconds when I first looked at it. If you want to focus more on the group of people, make the background darker and maybe use something to have the group become bold.

[Sepulverture]

If you are allowed to use acrylics, then why not just start over? acrylics dry fast, and from what I understand work well with other mediums. I'd suggest staying away from oil pastels. Great things can be done with oil pastels, but to learn and master them takes a lot of time and patience.

[Zimzibar]

I agree - the oil pastels look bitty and muddy, so there is no cohesion (i think that's a word...) I'd try something that covers more of the paper so you have some definition of the various forms you've got goin on, and acrylic would look to be the best choice as it covers over most things in my experience lol. And as Sepulverture said, you can wait for it to quickly dry and work over it til you're happy :)

Now i'm not totally sure about this but maybe use the acrylic on the figures, as you want them to stand out the most i'm guesing? Then the vague background wouldn't be such a problem cos at least the figures would look quite bold