/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5048759
Issue number one is lighting. These all look like photos taken under very flat fluorescent lighting which just looks ugly. There's a reason photographers are obsessed with lighting and transferring a picture to canvas doesnt make you exempt.
Number two is the bad brushwork. This person is at the level where they can basically color by number from a photo but thats it. Thats a good step and better than 99% of non-artists, but the job of a good painter is to audit the visual landscape and remove garbage. Take a look at any great painting. You'll see they are significantly more realistic with a fraction of the brush strokes. There are probably as many unsure brushstrokes in one shape of OP as there are in the entirety of pic rel.