10-03-2018, 06:30 AM
Hi Riley, welcome back :).
You are already at a decent level in my humble opinion judging by your portfolio.
I will try to be as helpful as I can with a few comments and observations.
Looking at your Star Wars figures I feel like you would benefit from doing more figure studies to give your figures more realism.
The Alice piece looks nice, if it was me I would push your values more for added impact (make your dark's darker and your lights lighter). Personally I like a more textured brushwork than you have used here and as you mentioned brushwork, I will assume you want to achieve that too. Master studies will help you here, choose a master painter who's brushwork you like and try to work out how they achieved their style. For me I have just started using the smudge tool alongside some textured brushes in Clip Studio Paint. Photoshop will have it's equivalents.
Anyway I hope this helps, if not please ignore :).
All the best anyway!
You are already at a decent level in my humble opinion judging by your portfolio.
I will try to be as helpful as I can with a few comments and observations.
Looking at your Star Wars figures I feel like you would benefit from doing more figure studies to give your figures more realism.
The Alice piece looks nice, if it was me I would push your values more for added impact (make your dark's darker and your lights lighter). Personally I like a more textured brushwork than you have used here and as you mentioned brushwork, I will assume you want to achieve that too. Master studies will help you here, choose a master painter who's brushwork you like and try to work out how they achieved their style. For me I have just started using the smudge tool alongside some textured brushes in Clip Studio Paint. Photoshop will have it's equivalents.
Anyway I hope this helps, if not please ignore :).
All the best anyway!
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