Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Darkiste: I appreciate the effort but your paintover completely destroys my image. I put a lot of delicate effort into the mid tones and your bringing up the high value behind the hair stops the lights of the hair from reading against the dark background. Light against light does not read. Yours completely washes out the subtlety of skin tones i got and obliterates the tone changes in the shirt, as well as any semblence of a pleasant viewing experience. I'd suggest, as someone has to you before, that you lose the obsession you have with maxing out contrast, ive showed you before there are intelligent ways to arrange values with low to high minor/major keys.

Read creative illustration by Andrew Loomis, and pay close attention to the section on values, he goes over this concept quite well there. 

Anyways, fixed the hair style, and i definitely like this one more, it feels a lot more relevant. Now i just gotta work on the presentation for it tomorrow, I kinda like how Betty Jiang did those concepts a while back with the character full body on the left and the portrait on the right. Also did some studies on mechs which i may upload soon, i have a  little stack of warmups ive been doing, and will definately be getting more into mech drawings as the old game Front Mission 4 has inspired this concept and a few more of mine to come