/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3292350
that's exactly my point. textured brushes are fine you just have to learn a balance. i didn't overpaint it i just blurred it and fixed the edges and colours that were out of whack so cool your jets jfc

heres some words to go along with the edit i guess

>textured edges on the face makes it look like his skin is peeling off
>eyes looked flat, i saturated them a bit and smoothed them out. again, i doubt you want them to look like blocks of rough stone as opposed to jelly-like eyeballs. i did try to keep them in your style though
>corrected the muddyness with saturation around the areas w most bloodflow
>softened lips because, again, with your brush they appear chapped
>i saw you were trying to make the shadows more magenta so i thought i'd show you what it would look like with that

i know you've denied it vehemently before but it is clear you're trying a wei feng/ruan style with extreme sharpness and texture. if you want to emulate that, props to you. but study them more and learn how to balance such extreme noise in your image. notice that theirs don't look flaky- just detailed