03-05-2020, 10:06 AM
Welcome to Daggers :)
It's hard to provide tailored feedback without knowing what kinda of direction/style you are wanting to head in, but I have some feedback below. Of course, take it with a grain of salt as these are just my personal opinions.
Overall, the pieces look pretty good. I've noticed though you do have a tendency to render a lot of it with hard edges - especially the faces. There's nothing wrong with this but when painting women the more you hard edge render every detail in their face, the more you age them. It could be worth experimenting with more softer edges. Below is a quick paint over I did on one of your images. I basically just took a soft brush to it and toned down the edges. The colours you pick for skin are very saturated and when you add such strong highlights to it, it gives it almost a plastic feel.
The paintover ain't that great lol, but hopefully it'll give you an idea of what I'm talking about. It's the whole ides of sometimes, less is more.
Also in some pieces watch your values - her hair was almost the same value as the sky.
Yours left - paintover right
![[Image: 03d6bef568ee176cdeb99b2c2e76f6ee2ede8a27.jpg]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/c1257e2524cfe658e8ff8a886e6c33ea/f458b459ef9ba447-57/s1280x1920/03d6bef568ee176cdeb99b2c2e76f6ee2ede8a27.jpg)
It's hard to provide tailored feedback without knowing what kinda of direction/style you are wanting to head in, but I have some feedback below. Of course, take it with a grain of salt as these are just my personal opinions.
Overall, the pieces look pretty good. I've noticed though you do have a tendency to render a lot of it with hard edges - especially the faces. There's nothing wrong with this but when painting women the more you hard edge render every detail in their face, the more you age them. It could be worth experimenting with more softer edges. Below is a quick paint over I did on one of your images. I basically just took a soft brush to it and toned down the edges. The colours you pick for skin are very saturated and when you add such strong highlights to it, it gives it almost a plastic feel.
The paintover ain't that great lol, but hopefully it'll give you an idea of what I'm talking about. It's the whole ides of sometimes, less is more.
Also in some pieces watch your values - her hair was almost the same value as the sky.
Yours left - paintover right