/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3139959
>>3139955

that's literally the only place with lots of black. the ref has tons of black shading in the hair and face.

>- erratic unmethodic brushstrokes (for which he keeps coming up with excuses)
>i never made excuses for that
>You are bullshitting yourself.
my main problem before was airbrushing to blend. i recently started playing with opacity/flow like it this one

>I bet if someone showed people the older painting and the current one, they wouldn't know which one is more recent
pfffft the nose/lips, even the hair on the older are easy give aways

>You paint like a child. You're not getting patted on your head for it if all you do is stagnate.
i know but why cant you guess just accept the fact that i only study portrait and figure twice a year

this was my first face from nov last year so drop this "no progress in two years" bs cause the drawing is at least improving

>>2795866
i already committed to finishing this one so this as is is done. and i wanted to improve my colors. im not really 'stressing' part of my problem was symbol drawing and i think improved on that

>>2795869
>Have you made some improvements
according to every single portrait ive done color has been a prolbem. going off what >>2795866
says
>the colors aren't the issue
in which case i have improved on the colors. as for symbol drawing, you can tell im putting a lot more effort into capturing details in the features and i was having trouble with making forms look like they wrap around the head. as for construction, i have a lot more grinding to do. i cant really draw outside of the no tilt 3/4 view

>>2748499
what exactly is the difference between the two "longs". how do you even measure that

>>2748496
not really since my last update. besides 'study more' no i didnt because im busy but i did watch some proko vids and applied that to this one (for example the sides of the mouth and lip construction is improved on this) and the philtrum is drawn a bit better. its hard to tell cause the file size but theres more detail in the eyes than before. i think its an improvement from this one

>>2737814
and i finished this