Tyger sketches

[kikindaface]

Hey, your last painting isn"t bad in terms of colors, very good skintone. My critic is really about values. It seems the overall tones are way too light to look realistic. Try to always paint slightly darker than what you think you're seeing or what you're imagining, in reall ife you have lighter values that white, you have any kind of light that is more bright than the white of the paper. in painting you're limited since the white is your lightest value. The best way to make light looks like light is to paint everything else slightly darker. it'll make the form more readable. 2nd thing is that your light area has actually too many highlights. you should really aim for 2-3 different values in the light area and then put your highlights carrefuly at the right place. It seems you don't really know where the light comes from, you can pinpoint the area but not the exact location, and it's something you should aim for, try to stick to your light source throughout the entire process ! One trick i use that ain't easy to to see my object from the point of view of the  light. Everything you don't see from this angle is not litted, so it's the shadow. It helps to set up the separation between light and shadow, then you have to understand the volume to give the exact tone without messing with your main light/shadow separation ! here's a quick overpaint if you don't mind, trying to emphasis everything i said above ! far from perfect but i hope enough to give clarity to my critic ! keep it up !