Coinhero's sketchbook

[Coinhero]

and here is my version



I think it looks pretty good but I struggle with getting subtlety in general and even when I try not to I still paint everything bright and saturated 

and then I compared the original and my study



it's pretty bad, the proportional problems and the overall placement I don't much care about because I could see that it was messed up and I had other goals with this study so the lines were rushed and just eyeballed. All the color and values being so off is what bothers me, seeing these 2 images like this and being able to compare them I can see now how obviously off everything is but when working on it everytime I wanted to look at the reference I had to look away from what I was painting. Maybe if I had the too images right next to each other instead of on 2 different monitors I would have nailed it but that would also be much easier and whats the point then.
I'm not going to work on this image anymore because seeing such a direct comparison kind of does all the thinking for me and it would just be rendering and how much time I put in to it from now on. So many simple things that are like 5 min fixes x.x I'm salty