/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4177036
Here are a few attempts I've made since my previous post. Initially I couldn't figure out how to improve the thing on the right so I took a break and tried to do the bird one on the left. It's really messy and hard to read but I realised that I could be using much darker colors and values on the first thing I was working on, so I went back and added onto it.

I'm probably going to have to redo it since it's so unclean, and I doubt I could recreate it since I kept switching brushes partway through and didn't really keep any consistency. Also I used a shit ton of random colors and just plastered them everywhere, so I'd have trouble replicating what few pleasant hue variations there are.

I'd appreciate any advice you could give me. Looking at this now I probably could've added some skin tones to show sunlight, and defined the lit areas with midtones (although I'm not sure how to do that without making it look like an out-of-place shadow). It feels like whatever I learn I forget the next day, probably a consequence of low IQ