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[Jeso]

Hey Hobbit, pay attention to your character, he seems short? like the legs are way to short, out of proportion, the arms look odd too, double check the proportions so. Next, if you want to get the most learning off of this, pay attention to the painting you are referencing, take in mind that you are not studying from a picture, but from a master painting, you need to look at the technique. Notice how subtle the artist renders the forms and try to emulate that in your work.

You say that you can't to push forward, yes you can, look at the painting, its staring at you in the face. Look are the hands in your dude for example, now look at the master painting, its obviously different right? try to push it to that lvl, dont give up so fast. Same with the cloths, look at the volume of those cloths from the reference, look at the range of values..

Okay after writing all that, i realized that you would be much much better off if you did a direct study of the painting, and then after studying that and learning from that, came and did a new piece from your mind, using what you just learned. I think that'd be more helpful. Because then you are applying everything i just said up there to the new piece, Application studies work best.