The Velvet Revolvers

[darktiste]

I want to draw your attention to how you don't round your form.Do you know what is a soft brush? You should use it to make the gradation on cylinder.I use the dodge and burn tool to fix quick what i saw as leak of roundness in the breach.How you indictated your plane it as if they where made out of polygone you want a softer gradation not just applying 3 tone and call it done.I also made sure to make some use of the texture to move the eye accross the trunk.You want to use contrast to bring the attention to where you want the focus to be.The could have been the root the trunk or the leaf here i choose the contrast and make a path with the texture of the bark.I also made sure to put a stronger core shadow under those root to anchor it down.