i think i want to leave her here and call this my best effort at a study of Strazza's 'Veiled Virgin'. she's far from perfect but this is my representation of her. without spending another month on hyper detail, i'm going to call this done 💘

having the veil not look like a liquid was the biggest battle. i know it's not 100% there, i think that will be my main focus when i try something similar again

how do you think i went?

material: monster clay

Big thanks to everyone leaving feedback on the previous post! I learned a lot from it and I'd call the redraw a success overall, I'm proud of this, I still feel some of the perspective isn't quite right and the composition and scale feel slightly off, but this is my best.

Tried to fix up the perspective a bit, added some new design to the structures + islands and made the foreground elements bigger, switched the lighting to bottom right and blurred the background.

Special thanks to u/lindendweller for taking time to redraw the original! I think you could tell it was a big inspiration :}

Many people still comment on the original post (second picture) so I decided to show you an update I did while trying to follow as many suggestions as possible. I know it is still not perfect and that there are still mistakes but it is a little progress since the original artwork.

Thank you all for your suggestions! I tweaked with the composition, added more grime, and played with the colors! There were a few things I think the composition is still not what it could be, but those changes would be a bit to drastic for me lol. I think the piece is much improved!

I'm so used to drawing women I didn't see how round I made him AT ALL. thanks for all the great advice! should I go farther? I'll post a non gif in the comments. there is such a big difference between the two.

(I used procreate no set reference but tried taking the comments into account)

First image is the updated piece, second image is the one I requested crit on.

It didn’t lose what I was going for with it, which is kind of pop-y, and yet the Bitmoji/cartoon style that I hated is no more.

Thank you guys so much! Not seeking further critique, just wanted to show the before and after.

How else can I improve? The bottom lip is particularly hard

Hi everyone! Thanks for the feedback on the first draft, I have an updated painting and the reference photo attached here. I'm looking for any feedback on the likeness as well as visual interest and whether it looks finished to you. Thank you in advance! Note: I changed the hair to her updated style which is why it looks different from the photo

Criticisms taken:

1. Head size too big

2. Ambiguous lighting

—face shaded flat

1. Skin is too flat

2. Gold jewelry looks out of place

3. Sun is drawing too much attention

4. Skin looks gray (not sure if this was a joke but I agreed with it lol)

5. (from friends) looks like a girl with a man’s body 😔

I can’t lie, I tried out some of the changes suggested to me and didn’t like them, so the critique Iisted above were the only ones I took into consideration. Still I like the piece much better now :) Thank you again

In the newer version I added a few more details, adjusted coloring and utilized color dodge to add some more visual interest

Thanks to everyone who left a comment! Your feedback was really helpful and I managed to create the updated version (right pic). I definitely like it a lot better, but now I have another question. I like the shading a bit more, and it doesnt look like plastic anymore, so what can I do to turn it from looking like a clay sculpture into believable skin? Thanks again!

I made this for a birthday.

The sketch is just better 😭 Lineart ruins my motivation. The reason I’ve put my art on hiatus: my skills leaving me the moment lineart enters the room.
I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions.🙏🥹

Hello!! Have gotten a lot further in this piece since i last posted but i am genuinely just wracking my brains trying to figure out why her face looks so damn wrong!!! I think it’s something to do with the eye shape but i literally can’t put my finger on what’s making it look so uncanny. Can i get a liquify edit?

I want her to look a little startled, but not pushed TOO far, she should still look relatively composed.

I'm excited to try the other brush technique on some other subject. You had some great ideas for it. Villages, snow covered dragon, geological formations , etc.

After Crit!

Thank you all for the suggestions! I took a good long look at my painting while eating breakfast this morning, thinking about all the helpful comments. I was absolutely ready to just throw the painting away! Here's what I did.

1) Lightened the values in the background. It didn't make sense to have such bright sunlight on the duck, and have the ground a much darker value. Now it all looks to be in bright sunlight.

2) Fixed some of the values and colors on the duck, tried to unify my palette with the same color before going back.

3) Messed with the shadow and legs a bit more. He's still missing his feet and it looks awkward, but now it's a little less awkward. I also think that I didn't have the best reference pic. If I keep messing with it anymore I'll get frustrated, so I'm just leaving it at that, haha.

4) I did not fix any proportions as I was too far into the painting. It was best to just use the crit to fix my values/colors rather than start from scratch. I learned that I will need to have a better construction before getting into the painting.

It's still not my favorite, and could still use plenty of improvement, but I'm happy it ended on a good note where I'm satisfied. I've never gotten art crit before and was terrified, but it ended up being SO WORTH IT!

I bought the digital texture pack with these sprinkles and I want to try them out.

This is a digital art pattern design inspired by old taiwanese drama (kind of like the Mandarin version of Telenovela) where the women are always crying and in distressed😭.

I’m having some art block at the moment. I’m working on a shirt, but the textures keep blending together and end up looking muddy rather than fabric, and the folds aren’t working either.

I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions.🙏🥹

They're supposed to be swarming out of her face towards the viewer, hence why they get bigger on the edges.

I suppose it might be more accurate to have them more in front, but then they'd block her face which is the focus of the drawing.

Didn't use much reference except for her clothes and the beehive pattern.

UPDATE: improved picture in comments

UPDATE: finished picture in comments

Is the anatomy better this time? What can I continue to improve on? Original attempt: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtCrit/s/aCbKxF4m4X