/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2959477
Throw some of the background color into the table. Never use 100% black - it rarely appears in nature. Throw some of the background color into it. Right now it's a big black hole that draws the eye. Compositionally, the table doesn't work, because it grabs the eye, and leads it off the page on either side. Crop the piece at the table on the bottom, and add more space on the top, cropping the head like that screams "photographic crop".

You probably have too many colors in your palette. An artist uses 10-12 colors in a standard palette, and mixes all of the hues he needs from it.

What you have now is the start of an underpainting. You need more white in the highlights, and need to start defining edges, as well as tones. Skin is has all of the colors in it, it's reflective, and it's not brown like that. You should be tinting shadows with transparent blues and violets. The red on the cheeks is too dark, use pinks. Don't use black in the shadows, especially the hair. Define, tighten, sculpt.