Sula's Sketchbook

[vlada]

Yooooooo that last piece yes yes yes. She's looking sick already. And that window light painting study is lovely! You're punching more variation in your skintones and it's really making that flesh shine.

One thing I noticed, you seem to keep away from deep ambient occlusion shadows -- so like on that ketchup bottle, the place where the cap is touching the table should be darker in value than the volume shadow on its side. If you squint, you'll stay aware of your darkest darks. You should also try to restrain your highlights, I know it's hard not to make things ~sparkle~ (I have that problem hoh boy) but keeping them down would give your studies more subtlety and realism :D Even with very reflective surfaces! They're tough.

Some Schmid sass that might help: