Asking for CC in my photo study

[carlosdiasart]

Hello everyone!
I’m getting back to the photo studies, it’s been a really long time since my last attempt on that and I’d love some critiques about this painting. My focus at this one is just the arm and shoulder.
My favorite art style currently is something near to Even Mehl Amundsen’s , with a semi-realistic render style, with just a few visible brushstrokes but just enough to be felt.
I would like critiques especially about my brushstrokes blending; I’ve been facing a little hard time on it. With some stains in some parts and not enough smoothness reached in my opinion.
If you have any vídeo/book/content about these issues it is going to be a great help as well!
Thank you for your attention

[000_peanut]

This looks fine and real to me
But I highly recommend to get critique from @brohawx and @creARTive_Paul
Both of them can give you great advice/critiques

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Hope you guys don't mind tagging you here
Thank you for helping OP.

[brohawx]

@000_peanut cool np

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@carlosdiasart Hello there, I hope you keep participating this was a great post and led to some wonderful research. I hope you find this helpful, and please forgive the typos.

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[carlosdiasart]

@000_peanut thank you for your compliment and for tagging them! I've never received a such detailed critique as this one from brohawx

[carlosdiasart]

@brohawx thank you so so so so so much for you critique, I'm really speechless for your effort of helping in this such detailed way! I've never received somethingl ike this!
I will read it again and organize my thoughts to write a proper answer!
Again thank you so much for your time and attention!

[brohawx]

Any time. It was a real pleasure

One of the other things you can do is a master study of the style you desire. Take an arm that EA painted and copy that as best you can, but also remember to take what you did and didn’t like about it with you for your own profit.

And you can do extra research by Looking up how EA does his work on patreon, or listen to his interviews. Just like there are so many books and videos published about other masters processes through time.

Find multiple styles from different artist inspirations and pull from them how the light and form and subject are manipulated and designed. Round out and beef up all the art skills.

Really glad your participating!

[creARTive_Paul]

@000_peanut thx for tagging
@brohawx nice detailed critique as always
@carlosdiasart ur atempt was allready pretty good and I think bro gaive some neat advises ... for the point of smoothness, when ur aiming for Even Amundsen's style u don't have to smodge everything to hard. His brush strokes are quite visible when u zoom in. Another impressive artist for rendering stuff is Anthony Jones, especially for lights and shadows.

[creARTive_Paul]

heres a good example from Even Amundsen