Critique on a portrait (wip)

[tempatson2227324]

hello cubebrush !
please critique my wip

[000_peanut]

heeeeeeyyy..!!!! Peanut here.. 😊
Just admiring the beauty of your art. 😮😮
She's so beautiful, like reallly really beautiful, those eyebags complement the eyes really well.

Maybe just improve the hair around her face and the horn so it will complement her face and the rest will just blend well..! The bangs look flat/lifeless in my eyes., or maybe my eyes are weird.. 😅

Beautiful 10/10 😘

[brohawx]

I’ll ask it again. Can you please state the intention of your piece?

Having us be clueless to the intent/desired goal you wanted to achieve doesn’t help us help you much outside of the technical aspects. We might end up critiquing something that you intended to happen, and since it’s a wip, it might be pointless because the entire thing can change.

“I need help with how to push this further”
“I need to finish this yes yes, but is it missing something?”
“My intent is to mimic this master did I succeed?”
Or even,
“(Life story skip to recipe) I want it to look like ‘this’.”

First post, and new account, welcome to the forums.

[tempatson2227324]

Thank you for the help!

To add on:
I think the biggest struggle for me right now is the facial expression. I intend her to look neutral -- leaning sad a little bit.
I dont think i was able to achieve that well.

Also, how can i push the painting further, color wise? I feel that it is too monocolor at the moment, green being the main tint.
Id like to play with contrasting colors but i dont know where to apply them

[brohawx]

Cool! That helps a bunch.

I'll work on an explanation/demo but check a couple of the other critiques around, I've explained counter change in a couple responses in posts and hue variety with research sources etc here.

[brohawx]

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[tempatson2227324]

@brohawx
you are amazing! this is the knowledge and feedback you would receive at a high-end art school -- i can't believe i'm receiving it for free. I wouldn't be suprised if you worked as an art mentor haha

I can't thank you enough. I actually learned so many things.
Cheers!

[tempatson2227324]

thank you for the help! i appreciate it alot.
Hair has always been my weakness haha. I think it is definitely one of the hardest things to paint out there XD
I will make sure to study alot!

[creARTive_Paul]

welcome ...amazing artwork ... for the hair issue, it's good u treated them as blocks right away ... from there on u just have to add some light reflections and some darker seperations and maybe draw in some single hair strings here and there, but don't go over board

[tempatson2227324]

heres a progress picture!
the hair is definitely the biggest struggle right now, but i'm slowly making my way there, using your guys advices as a guideline

[creARTive_Paul]

the hair definetly improved a lot and looks more natural now ... nice going so far

[prinzmoana]

Omg this was so helpful 😱 I'll use this too xD Thank you man 🙏🏼