/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3670589
Your style is quite different from realism (that is not a bad thing btw it's pretty cgood), I tried to give it justice with out using more midtones and restricting only to the colors you used but I obviously I can't do it like you. It is not easy to go realistic from a cartoonish pastel imagery.

For more realism look at your light sources their intensity and angle as they form the shape. On here I added filter layer that adds -40 brightness and +50 contrast. Then divided the background with a darker red half to make the light more apparent. Then also tried to make it like the left part is less lit and the right part more lit.

Then I changed some basic things, added more highlight to the eyelid and more shadow to the eyeball. Changed the nose to be more realistic, this is a big change compared to yours, changed the lips to be less ground added corners of the mouth and made the teeth also less flat by adding shading to the left side.

Also added some more detail to the neck and shoulders but that didn't really add much I feel.