/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4088961
Hey anon I like your painting a lot so I did a quick and dirty paint-over, if you don't like what I did that's cool, just disregard it.
I felt like there was too much empty space and that it was making the figure less powerful so I cropped it in a bit to make the figure bigger and more intimidating.
I felt like you could push your shadows further into darkness to increase the contrast in this composition and make our figure more dangerous/mysterious so I darkened them using the lasso/curves tool.
I felt like it was too saturated, so I sucked out a lot of that using hue/saturation sliders.
Finally the composition is already very red/yellow so I reduced the yellow saturation to make the cuffs appear white.
I did very little actually painting, I darkened under the clothes a little, as well as the eyes.

A good painting to study and for inspiration that is similar in composition to this would be Mead Shaeffer's The Count of Monte Cristo.

What I did isn't necessarily better, you lose a lot of the details but it provides more contrast and oomph. Loving your work, keep it up!