/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6125674
For me the way to go is simply have a couple of genuine questions while doing whatever I think I know I'm doing, for example when I'm adding reflected light on shadows, is the value accurate? Does it make sense with the rest of the image? Am I paying attention to what color swatch is this in the color wheel? how saturated? How does it compare to my deeper shadows? Can I make the contrast stronger? Does it look good? etc, etc.
I ask everything I can notice, not to an autistic level, but to what caught my attention, sometimes you already know what you're confused about, so at least you don't go in blind in your study.
Also, the intention you have for your image matters quite a bit, it's not the same painting with a Sargent approach than doing something closer to Mignola, the questions are different (there's some overlap, believe it or not), that's why it's a good idea to know what artist you like and what you like to create, so you're not wasting your time doing studies of stuff of you're never gonna do in your own work, there's some merit to master studies, but you're not gonna get all the information you need from doing this blindly without thinking about what looks appealing for you and doing studies of other masters that get you closer to that goal. I just mention this because I know a lot people get memed into doing master studies and doing things like draw a box thinking that's gonna magically turn their unrelated ideas into something appealing. then they get mad about it.