/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5122501
>Is it just painted poorly or bad lighting or just everything?
This pic seems to be in the ballpark of what you want to do. Compare it to yours.

1 the colors are terrible. Your highlights are pure white and the shadows are same tone just darker. Ever heard "warm light cool shadow"? I'd recommend you to figure out why is that so rather than to simply follow the meme. Light source has a color, secondary light also has a color etc.

2 your lighting is weak too. you have absolutely no sense of where is the light coming from, left tit is lit from the right, right tit is lit from the left, same issue with her thighs and calves, the sword gets strong light from the left and her pauldrons get light from the right. and her face is not lit at all.

Where's the lamp, left or right? chose a consistent direction of lighting and stick to it.

There's no strong sense of shadow either. even her ass cheeks and neck get light somehow while they really should be in the shadow.