LV's sketchbook

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Hey everybody!
little update with some sketches and finished paintings. I am at the moment using exclusively clip studio to paint and I love it.
I am still working on my portfolio which is good, but I am not doing enough studies which is bad. Hope to fix that soon.
I am also neglecting my moleskine sketchbook and I hate that. I wish day had more hours.

Hey there
just did a quick paint over
youve got some nice portrait work and rendering in your works
the figure here is painted nicely
some area for improvements are perhaps, composition wise the control of detail placement.
the belly texture is cool but sticks out n a unique way that gives a bit of inconsistent feel to the piece
maybe you could mask some of it out or paint it in a little more.
as far as other details, she got nice nipples, almost looks like theyve had the most care paid to them in the piece
which is ok if the read of the image is  as you want it to be. then we have the eyes which are aight too
though compete with the outstanding contrast of the nipples again.
other than that theres not much of a size variance with the details.
round small eyes, round small nipples, tiny wave splashes. more variation in the splash shapes be nice
you could add something like more interesting shape in the gills or even just find some cooler shapes of light and shadow.
a lack of interesting points will mean less feel of want to look over the piece for very long.
the pose is alright but could consider something a bit more dynamic for what shes doing.
i couldnt really tell where the light was coming from
if you decide the light a bit stronger you can describe the forms a nit fuller and with some nicer reads of anatomy stuff.
if you reduce the detail; and contrast when you get away from the focal points it will give a bit better read and depth,
things like the waves dont have to be as consistently lined. its kind of making it stiffen up a bit i feel and not helping you guide the eye
if you want to start from over detailing then pushing it back thats a fine way to work.
youve got some composition tricks in there with points and arrows but could also do this a bit more with subtle areas like in the rock which again has very low shape/size contrast in the rendering.
even that little hole with the light one the very left side, just make it an arrow painting in and it does some work to keep your eye on the page.
I tweaked the colour of the water to help her stand apart from it a little more
splashes a few magic thwips in the water balls for interest sake.

hope that helps
and please dont get me wrong, its a very nice job youve done already.
dont feel too bad about not doing enough studies, your port folio is worth puttng time into and doing developed images will give you more insight into what studies you actually need to improve in the direction you want.