/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2128460
Ok, I tried my hand at this and I have a few things to say about your attempt.

From one beginner to another. Don't do this. Set the image to greyscale and just do the shading separately of color. It will help you focus on the lighting, which you'll want to do because color is a completely different ballgame altogether.

Also, my advice is that you do shading in big blocks of shadows, midtone, light, and highlight, instead of laying a bunch of different tone strokes next to each other. Try to draw approximate shapes for which the lighting group is in. This is basically one of those "Draw what you see exercises" where you try to draw the shape of the lighting group. So like that highlight on the nose might be a long block down the nose which you can refine later. Once you have the blocks down you can blend or lay down inbetween-tones and try to detail. Another thing I've found is that you should keep the shade simple to start. So I tend to start with grey, then lay down the blocks of shadows including the somewhat shaded parts, and then lay down the light and refine using the lighter tones.

tl;dr
Shade in greyscale for practicing
Draw blocks of color based on how you see the lighting groups
Refine the blocks by blending or painting on top

It also helps to study the planes of the face as it will help you make sense of why the shade is where it is.

I've tried to layout some of those blocks I was talking about.
1 is the brightest part, 2 is bright, 3 is somewhat bright, 4 are shadows. Of course, you have to draw what you see.