I am new here, so hello to everybody!
I’ve posted this painting in 2d finished works, but it was rejected from forum.
Following moderators advice I post it in WIP - for some comments - so I could make it better and learn a thing or two in the process.
All comments would be apreciated 
Cheers!
I’m not really sure why it might have been rejected. It looks finished to me. The only thing i could touch on is maybe the hair.
If you add a little more hard edges to the hair. Maybe some hard strands flying out. Thats all I can think of. This image has a weird mix of hard and soft edges. If you were to define the hair a little more, It might make it pop better.
Regardless it is nicely done.
You have prominent highlights on her skin, but her hair is quite flat in comparison. The texture of hair is usually as least as reflective as skin.
There are also value coherency problems, such as the spider’s value shift from the lit to unlit side being a much smaller shift compared to the figure. Even if the spider’s surface is matte, it’ll still have a greater shift than what you’ve given it. Value shifts have to have logic behind them, and you need to keep it consistent in the entire image.
The lighting is also a bit vague. What kind of light source is it exactly? A spotlight focused on her face and shoulder area only? A large frontal area light?
Thank you for critique.
You are right with comments about the lighting, I will try to make it more consistent.
Nice work… I really dig the texture of her skin.
The only thing I can see is that the underside of the spider’s abdomen is too bright (at least in my opinion). Depending where exactly your right lightsource is, it would either be more or less backlit or in the woman’s shadow.
Nice concept! At that angle wouldn’t the iris have more of a oval shape? Also the placement of the of the leg so close to the mouth is kind of making an odd tangent, almost makes me think she’s sucking on a straw.
Thank you for the tips, I was looking at this so long, that I couldn’t see the errors =)
Thanks for comments and help.
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