Silk Spectre I Fanart Critique

Watercolour 2017-08-28 22:13:31 UTC #1

Hello again,
I finish one painting 2-3 months, yet I am in need of fresh eyes again
Here is something I started some time ago, and I feel like it's in a good spot to have some mistakes fixed before having refined it. I've mostly worked on the face and pose, so the outfit is pretty much just "blocked out". Critiques are welcome!

ragecandy 2017-08-28 22:51:25 UTC #2

I'd use a bigger softer brush for blending

malcom 2017-08-28 23:54:25 UTC #3

I did a quick paint over. Hopefully you don't mind. Just like @ragecandy said, use a big soft brush. I wouldn't recommend using a custom texture brush right now. The face was a good start as far as blending go's but you need to do that everywhere else. I assumed you used reference for the pose which came out pretty good. The clothes can use a bit of work. Just keep using reference. Don't focus on the time it takes. Just keep on painting an learning for now. Keep up the good work.
Also here's a tutorial on blending

Watercolour 2017-09-01 12:44:42 UTC #4

@malcom thank you very much for your detailed explanation and taking the time to provide it Did you use the lasso tool for the lifted arm? I'm very bad at that technique, I can never make the selection as I want it to be
So here is what I managed to do ... I'm still postponing working on the boots so they're a bit of an eyesore right now

malcom 2017-09-01 17:20:08 UTC #5

Not a bad start. Definitely an improvement over the other I actually used a soft brush for the entire thing I believe. For hard edges you can just make the brush smaller. You can do the same if the lasso tool isn't good for you. I recommend practicing using the lasso tool because it can speed things up in my opinion but its up to you. Its not needed though.
For this new version I think you should work on the values. The contrast of things are to close to eachother. Heres another PO to help

I didn't work on every area. Just the arm that's raised up and a little bit of the face. Here some ref similar to what you have so you can visually see what I used and how I applied it.