/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Thank you all for the feedback and the overpaint!

>>4095956
With "professional" portrait I don’t mean realistic portrait. It was painted from imagination and I’m fine with the cartoonish vibe. By the way I agree with everything you said. Just one question: when you say I should add a light source you mean I should add a secondary light or I should make the main light stronger?

>>4096072
I always get told to push my values more. I try to push them further everytime to a point where I say "ok that’s too much, if I push them further it will look like an alien" but I always get that critique. Is there a way to know when they are pushed enough? Also, I took a look at some faces on artstation and to me their value variations are pretty sublte, pic is an example from Dave Greco (whose art I’m inspired by). I know there is a difference between his values and mine but I can’t see it.

>>4096080
To be fair the values in the original pic aren’t that bright.