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November 15, 2021 at 12:52 pm #1694425

blinky465

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If you’ve got five minutes, I’d appreciate some feedback!

Really nice brushwork, well done! If anything, I’d be tempted to push the contrast a little more (though this sometimes can create a slightly “cartoon-y” look). Darker shadows and brighter highlights are the easiest way to bump up contrast. The fur around the guys boots are a great example of where it really works – even though it reads as almost-white, the shadow parts are almost black. An “easy win” is to further edge-highlight things like fingers and toes (even a simple line along them to further separate them is enough) or some pure white along the highest ridges of the folds of the white dress. Something to separate the skin from the dress would also bump up the contrast (either a dark line or make the skin a bit darker where it meets the line of the dress).

Maybe whack some ink/shade in the stitches on the guys tunic, then pick out the largest stitches going across (if you wanted to go really overboard, edge-highlighting where the two seems meet would really make the seams “pop” but just picking out the larger stitches would probably be more than enough!)

But these are more like “adding sparkle” – the overall paintjob is pretty impressive!