Charlotte's Works

Looks fantastic.
If you do have time then there are a couple of points where adjacent leaves blend together in the same flat colour and just a.single line of light or shadow along one edge would work to separate them a little more...
 

But it's not a big thing and even without the change I think it's more than good enough to print as it is. The background works very well now due to the way you've "grounded" it with those contact shadows. It now looks like a receding depth of space rather than just colour. Well done.

Thank you and I will add some more shadow in those places! (And maybe a couple more, when I look at it again, later...)

And order is sent. So forever hold your piece. Uh, peace.

I know I whined as late as yesterday about not being able to finish this image for my niece's birthday, today, but... I guess I did finish after all. At least it's as finished as it'll ever be. 

 

Looks good. I like the sense of transparency and those sharp little highlights on the insect antennae.

Painting leaves is never fun. I've been trying to do an acrylic painting for the last month that has far too many of them and I'm not enjoying it. Will be glad when it's done.

December 2021.... No wonder it took a while to find this thread...  

Anyway, I am still reworking an old piece and it's taking forever... But I might need to look at it with my web eyes too, so I figured I'd post a re-wip...

 
Original image (2017 - never entirely finished)

 
And current. I obviously haven't done the stretched out leg yet, and I'll need to rework her hair - again. I have no idea how many times I've already repainted it, today only... And I haven't even started on the background (well, except I changed a "branch" and later realised it was probably supposed to be a tree... ) and I'll need to crop it as it's not a very good composition at the moment with her bum being smack dab in the center... After repainting her hair multiple times I might also need to rework her ribcage as I painted over it with hair and then changed my mind and painted it back in expecting it to be more or less obscured by more hair but maybe it won't be...  

Hopefully so far it's more than just a sharpness/contrast improvement, though (The original was smaller I think, I made a start on the v2 ages ago so I'm not certain but the blurriness of it suggests so.)

 

I think that the changes you've made to the face are working against that original shoulder anatomy. The more feline face of the first one, with the darker shading on the left side, allows you to get away with that exaggerated "prowling" pose. I think lowering the shoulder and making the tension of the arm a little more subtle might match the anatomy to the more human features like this...

 
(...and I know I haven't done it very well but you get the idea. )

I like the extra detailing in the hair and I think it might be improved even further by adding a bit of neutral reflected light in some of the darker areas of the left side to break up the uniform saturation and hue.

And even though you didn't mention it (maybe it was a previous improvement) that foot looks so much better in the second pic.  I like doing feet as much as I like doing hands so I appreciate the work done there in that version.

Thanks Val, Good point about the hair. I've been struggling with my original choice of warm shadows and green reflected light on her entire body but completely forgotten to have more than one light on the hair... I'll see what I can manage about the head/shoulder/arm pose, I'm not keen on making too large changes but I agree her face has lost a bit of that feral-ness she had before.

As for the foot, I did that today. Unlike you I rather like painting feet (but not hands ) because I like it when they turn out looking realistic. That said I'm not sure I'm happy with it yet, we'll see.

Anyone feel like doing a bit of a paint over? I seem to be stuck on this foot... I just paint and repaint and fiddle and fuss but it's not getting better and it's not looking right. I think I take back that thing about not minding painting feet. I now hate the shape of the heel.  

Anyway, I thing the foot is too wide and the shape/angle of the heel compared to the leg is wrong, but I can't get it right. I could do with some "guidelines" (literal...) Then again, the shading isn't ok either...  

 

(My references including foot no 1, included)

Hmm, a paintover?

Valence wrote:

I like doing feet as much as I like doing hands...

No, I don't feel like it.

But I did anyway!
A fingerpainting of feet.

I think adding those specular highlights and deepening the shadows will help the form. Also adding some of those grey/greens may help the foot sit more easily with the background. And I filled out the heel a bit.
And it doesn't look great but...