Original and alternate lighting scheme

I have created three thumbnails to keep me focused on the lighting affects and away from the window details. I have given two different options on lighting, in contrast to to the image supplied. The first one has light shining through the door onto the figure to take priority of focus, leaving the light in ally as second focal point. In my third option there are three light sources, and I believe the three lights move the eye around the scene faster making the shadow of the figure the first focal point as it has two light sources pointing to it. I am not so keen on this thumbnail and prefer the two light option best.

I chose a scene from Emma!

Heres my studies. i used a still from Ingmar Bergman's Persona, in the second study i went kinda of spooky with a door to the beyond as the new light source

I so worked on the perspective I was so fixed that it took me hours to get it right. and now I'm so no good at inventing light sources but I did a good excercise, the 1st looks good because it used the ref light and the second is the one I invented still useful and makes you think on whoa light and space works

Here is my attempt:

the original is from "Silver Linings Playbook"

It would be "fun" too see how many ways one could tell a story in this image, a bit like the comic 99 Ways to Tell a Story. But just by using light!

I chose a scene from the movie Sleepy Hollow. Done in Procreate (I thought it would be faster but I’m still a beginner at digital painting so it took longer than a lot longer than using real paints)

The first image was the low key value study or as close as I could get them. The most contrast being the area between the buildings. For the second I tried making it look like the light source was coming from off screen and directed at the man standing by the entrance.

Ok, so on a screenshot is my initial small value study and I’ve marked the order of where my eye went when looking at a photo and then I’ve added a kinda simple but very bright window, that, I hope drags attention first and then keeps the same order 🤔 Did it work?) [at first, I just lit up the frame - then I realized that broke … physics 😂 and changed it to a glow from the inside of a flat, thought decided to post the first idea anyway, this way: I picture in that huuuuuge light source on a sky-lift just of the frame to the left👀😂] [also a moment of admiration: the composition and placement of original values are just awesome, that bright alleyway is just on the right height - where the eye goes naturally and it even drags attention from a darker spot - the door]

Really wanted to push that front lighting. Drawing windows are almost as intense as drawing trees!

The third one is without much detail. I want to simplify them more...

A version with values 4-9 and a full-values one with a new area of interest.

This is what I have completed so far…. One with light in the alley, as per the reference, and one with the light on the left side building. I apologize for the wonky perspective - painting architecture is not my thing.

1-Highlights. I tried to create a misty atmosphere in which the attention goes first to the sky and the roofs of the buildings on the left and then, hopefully, to the window of the building. 2-Shadows - I tried to bring the attention to the end of the street. 3-Mids. I moved the focus to the door of the big building. I enjoyed this exercise but I can't yet find a brush that fits this king of paintings (I'll keep searching…)

Added a dog😋