/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3849947
>Which brush did you use, airbrush or something?

No. I'm not against airbrush with low flow, but it's wrong for this.

This is 99% hard round with size sensitivity turned off. Shapes are painted on a top layer, shaped with an eraser if necessary, then the contents dropped down to the bottom final layer. Values were bushed using an overlay layer. Every layer on top is locked to the silhouette (I recommend you make a drawing always. I'm only doing without because this is just a torso.)

Only a little bit of flat texture brush was used near the end to show you that it can be done separately. The only brush setting that is changed often is opacity - high opacity for shapes, low opacity later to blend.

Hard brushes at high opacity forces you to make meaningful strokes and shapes. It can be laid down quickly. This took less than 20 minutes to do because it's mostly high opacity. I'm not rubbing the same spot over and over to get a solid value.

This was done without reference and the lighting isn't necessarily accurate, but there's at least an air of believability because the shadow/light shapes all have a combination of hard and soft edges. This is something that's missing from your paintings, and it is very tough for you to do if you're noodling with a small brush at low opacity the entire time.