Poison Ivy

#1

Hi everyone! I’ve done this digital painting using Photoshop and Wacom Tablet. Please, help me to improve my technique with your advices.
Thank you very much.
:wavey:

#2

Can you tell us which parts you are unhappy with and want advice on?

The composition and the colors are pretty good, with a nice balance of focal point and supporting elements and contrasting colors. Her seductive expression and general proportions also seem fine.

Her fingers don’t look natural, with the skin wrinkles at the joints missing. Also, the way the nail actually sets into the finger needs to be a bit more accurate. The flesh around the nail should bulge out slightly, and then dip down again like a ridge, and then the nail should actually wrap around the finger in a slight curl, coming out of the ridges formed by the surrounding flesh. You should also give her fingers a bit more structure, otherwise, they tend to look like rubbery sticks without the structure of bones inside.

Her way her hair is arranged doesn’t look quite natural, and the strands/layers aren’t defined enough to show the hair has structure (always depict hair as layers of strands instead of one solid mass).

Her armpit area also looks unnatural.It’s as if the clothing is cutting into her armpit, and the fabric also seems strangely unaffected by the compression point at the armpit. Clothing wrinkles/folds are the most prominent at compression points (inside of any bending area like armpits, behind the knees, inside of the elbow, the crotch area), stress points (anything that protrudes out, like elbows, knees, breasts, shoulders), and loose flabs (any gathering of fabric that’s not stretched out evenly, and usually anchored by compression and stress points).

Don’t depict eyebrows like a solid mass. Eyebrows have visible hair growth direction, just like the hair at the hairline. Look in the mirror at your eyebrows and see how it starts out in the inner section growing upwards, then starts to turn towards the side, and by the time it gets to about 2/3 to the outer section, it turns dramatically in a downward slanted angle. If you show this, the eyebrows you depict will look a lot more natural.

#3

Dear Lunatique,
I really don’t know how to thank you for the time you dedicated to me and for all your advices. I’ll work again on my painting trying to follow your suggestions carefully.

#4

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