Any tips on his shirt and background ?

[eternal finch]

Hi there 🙂

So I struggle with making his upper arm more plastic, any advice ?
Does it need more wrinkles in the shirt ?

The background is not finished yet, it still needs a lot of shading and texture but I'm happy to receive feedback on this too 🙂

Thank you 💜

[fast mica]

Yeah the shirt does look a bit wet i’d try adding more wrinkles or try not glueing the shirt to the arm let the men breathe

[eternal finch]

does this look better ? : )

[fast mica]

Yeah not as wet anymore and looks more comfortable

[eternal finch]

thank you !

[crisp fog]

hey there 🙂 I see youve worked on it and it turned out so nicely 😄
If you want to i have some lighting suggestions. It's going to get a little rambly but that's just because I want to explain why I'm saying what I'm saying.

when I ran a saturation filter over your image I noticed that your values are fairly close with not that much contrast. sometimes it doesn't matter, but especially with a lot of detail, it can start looking very busy

contrast helps leading the eye around the image

just to visualize easier

Now the question is, where do you want your light source to be? Because I had the feeling you wanted like a golden backdrop light, which would make the window the light source

your characters have highlights that are brighter than the actual light source though

even assuming the light source isnt the window, he s missing highlights on places that would be light if the it were to come from the front or side

the highlights that are confusing i indicated in pink, the missing ones in green

if you wanted to have a light source from the front/side you would need to fix the shadows and higlights on them a bit. and to add more contrast i would put the wall and vines surrounding the window into more shadows

it d look something like this, with values like this:

ok almost done, sorry

if you wanted the light source to be the window, you d have to back light them

also find some references on how light behaves if you re looking straight towards the light source

you see the beams on the window and the surroundings move way into the shadows

it would be the same for the two figures, unless you add a secondary light source from the front

but it d be more like this and would have values like this:

I know I've gotten way too technical for a simple question but please believe me, it's much much easier to get used to analyzing it like this later on when you're under time pressure and your client wants 5000 reviews for free

I hope this helped and you liked some of it ❤️

[eternal finch]

thats such a great explaination omg ... THANK YOU so so mcuh

I have to admit I already finished it before your comment, so I hope I already fixed some of the lighting mistakes here ^^

It gets a overhaul though cuz I got so carried away shading the background that I forgot to draw the guys scars lol

[crisp fog]

YES it's great with the darker walls! I love the new lighting on the background. The vines also look more three dimensional 👌