The Velvet Revolvers

[Jeso]

I want to draw your attention to how you don't round your form.Do you know what is a soft brush? You should use it to make the gradation on cylinder.I use the dodge and burn tool to fix quick what i saw as leak of roundness in the breach.How you indictated your plane it as if they where made out of polygone you want a softer gradation not just applying 3 tone and call it done.I also made sure to make some use of the texture to move the eye accross the trunk.You want to use contrast to bring the attention to where you want the focus to be.The could have been the root the trunk or the leaf here i choose the contrast and make a path with the texture of the bark.I also made sure to put a stronger core shadow under those root to anchor it down.

Hey bro, Thanks for taking the trouble. A few things though, You should learn to be a little bit more polite.  "do you know what is a soft brush"  Is really condescending brother haha. Also you dont always want a soft gradation, sometimes things with a different texture dont react to light in the same way as others. I appreciate the paint over, but the way you rendered that form, looks like either the tree is wet, or it's made out of plastic.

I should definitely get better at plane changing indication though, that's for sure, I got a long way to go. There is some stuff on your paintover that I can tell does look a lot better, so thank you. :)

Listen though! This is a study group and i appreciate the feedback. Also I want to invite you to post in this thread, whatever you study or finished pieces. I'll swing by and share some feedback too. Hoping somebody else sees this thread as well, and jump in.