[ryokoseigo]

<p class=””>You would do well to perhaps have more color variety.  The lack of variety is causing a lack of depth.  There might also be an issue with contrast, but I’d need to set it to black and white to confirm.  With just reflected light alone you could make this image a whole lot more interesting, mostly brown in the white.  I posted an example below of a quick mockup of what I’m talking about, it’s not actually good, but it’s a start.</p>
https://imgur.com/a/p7U2NF5

 

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by ryokoseigo.

[ryokoseigo]

I agree with the previous post, only I’d raise the saturation in the foreground more, and keep the background as is.  The background pulls off the foggy look well, and near the upper body looks great as a contrast to the brighter colors.  I think perhaps it goes into fog too abruptly though.

[ryokoseigo]

I think the drawing is good, but the actual message is lost.  The pink/red bits work well, and I can see the body rendered, although the babies front leg kinda disappears too abruptly, unlike the mothers which works.  At least for me I’m having a hard time figuring out what the mood of this painting is.  The mother looks mostly at peace but isn’t embracing or caring for her child at all, while the child appears to be looking at the mother’s neck with its arms in an odd position.  That single black line for the eye on the baby also results in a cartoonish look that likely wasn’t intentional.  Is the blanket supposed to look like an angels wing or is that a happy accident?

[ryokoseigo]

I just realized I have very little that isn’t 100% with a photo reference, so this will have to do, most recent painting, obviously digital.  I had to use jpg quality to actually get it this high resolution.  My creativity is very poor, and I am surprisingly bad at anatomy when working from memory, so references are a must if I want any chance of making something acceptable.

 

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by ryokoseigo.

[ryokoseigo]

You need to work on your proportions and rendering atm.  Your first image is notable worse looking than the uncolored version due to the rendering being a bit off.  This makes them look much flatter then they should be.  It seems you are using black too much to make shadows which is a huge part of the issue.  I get where you are at, and likely the suggestion from others would be to focus on 1 thing, say anatomy for awhile and forgo color/full scenes.  I didn’t do that approach, and it definitely hurt me, but I won’t say you have to do that way, just that it’s likely more efficient.  You clearly have the ideas, but not the skill to pull them off fully yet, so it makes sense to focus less on ideas for a bit and more on technique.  I’m the reverse, and that’s likely in part due to my refusal to do practice sketches and learn individual steps.

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