/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3717939
God you are posting it only now while I am going blind trying to work with that pic for ants producing this awful attempt. Anon why u do dis to me?

Jokes aside What I noticed compared to the ref is that the ref has a more hue difference at certain spots compared to yours, a lot more yellows and purples especially at the highlight spots. the palm the knee the arm she is leaning on the face etc. has subtle hue shifts. try to experiment with that

Th other thing I can suggest if you paint skin is to make a brush that imitates the texture of the skin, if you close up to her leg you can see that the skin is full of subtle dots. You could try to experiment and create a brush that imitates this or just do what many animu artists do and throw a screen noise filter on it and then decrease its opacity and maybe add a bit of color here and there.

I put up the brushed I have for reference
1) basic hard
2) circle pressure sensitive
3) same as 2 but with a square shape
4) same as 3 but the square shape has a 20% random direction jitter
5) same as 3 but the square shape has a 20% hardness jitter

I got to like the 4th to imitate some brushwork or to make the edges less hard but still not completely blurred smooth.
Note, I still used the smudge tool a lot while trying my horrible paintover due to having to use 2-5 pixel bushes at this resolution.