/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6138374
I thought maybe you were just using a scary looking tranny as reference but I looked her up and she looks nothing like that. At this stage maybe you should be studying purely from values until you have good control over value and shape as well as better accuracy when studying, especially since you're not sure how to fix things without changing her expression; if you accurately reproduced the photo obviously that wouldn't even be a concern.

>>6138377
Looks like ketchup. Blood is a bit darker and bluer. Also liquid on a surface doesn't shine like a pool of liquid sitting on a table would; it coats the surface and shines as that surface would if glossy. I know that may be hard to parse so here's a sloppy drawover to show you what I mean. That said, blood (as in gore, which has a slightly "rough" surface because it has minuscule chunks in it) isn't the glossiest liquid in the first place, and when thinly spread on a warm surface exposed to the air like skin it very quickly coagulates in parts, turning darker, a little browner and flaking off. It can be difficult to find non-legally-dubious reference for blood on skin of course, but maybe the next time you get a nosebleed or something let some drip on the back of your hand and study that.