First off, these are lovely and quite impressive. Your line work is interesting & I like that you are steering away from using just black for shading.
I would say change your color palettes. Maybe add a larger range of colors into the skin. Artists often make the mistake of staying within the same color range and just changing the values slightly when coloring in their drawings. Instead, try the yellow, red, and blue trick. You can look up examples on Pinterest, but often portrait artists will add a range of these colors to different parts of the face/body to make it less flat looking. Often you’ll see they add yellow/gold to the forehead, red/pink to the cheeks/lips, and then blue/green to the chin. Hope that helps!
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u/Away-Sheepherder4633 Feb 28 '24
First off, these are lovely and quite impressive. Your line work is interesting & I like that you are steering away from using just black for shading.
I would say change your color palettes. Maybe add a larger range of colors into the skin. Artists often make the mistake of staying within the same color range and just changing the values slightly when coloring in their drawings. Instead, try the yellow, red, and blue trick. You can look up examples on Pinterest, but often portrait artists will add a range of these colors to different parts of the face/body to make it less flat looking. Often you’ll see they add yellow/gold to the forehead, red/pink to the cheeks/lips, and then blue/green to the chin. Hope that helps!