/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4038981
Tried doing a few more iterations, the top is just more of the same trying to see what looks good, the bottom is where I followed the directions you suggested. I don't know what it is but I still can't make something that looks impressive. There's still a bit of pillow shading going on, maybe my blending brush is also a bit too smudgy. It could be the lazy color use, maybe I just have to experiment with varying subtle hue variations around different body parts like that other anon suggested (though it seems like mixing any other color with green produces some very ugly colors). Could also just be that I have to zoom in and add more detail with a smaller bursh size to make it look good.
As for my actual painting brush, I started using an airbrush with a slightly hard edge. I like the aesthetic that hard edges have though, so your brush looks pretty nice to me. I'm using csp by the way, in case you've got advice for me on that front. Blending modes are those settings that you can set layers to, like overlay or multiply. Though I guess they don't matter when you're working on a single layer.
Sorry for the spam but I feel like I'm very close to being able to churn out something of quality, so I need to understand what it is that I'm failing at