CGMythology's Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Personally something with the skin look off don't forget darker skin tone absorb more light so if my understanding is correct that mean a bigger shift from the light side to the shadow side.

I added the skin reference if you want to go more into detail and study the color shift personally i just use the burn tool in the shadow range at around 50%

One thing that as a nice effect is the sweat on is skin in the shadow side it create interest also this sweat change the level of reflection on the skin i think black people tend to sweat more due to there skin absorbing more of the light.For all this reason i think the skin look more realistic if you are aware of how those thing interact.

One small other thing i did is reduce the light in the background on the left to give a the eye the path that seem where you want the attention to go which is the face.The pile of scrap therefor as not an equal read also making thing a bit darker add more ''danger'' ''mystery''.

Also i did not do a paint over on this specific area but the shape of the knuckle seem out of place they don't allign properly with the finger and the are to prodruted the shadow in between the knuckle show be reduce to give more flatness to the shape.

That all hope you get something out of that.

Have a nice day - Darktiste