Seeking Constructive Criticism + Any Words y’all can Offer!

[proper walrus]

To preface, here are some notes/ things I’ve noticed:

• I chose not to add one of the hands
• I feel the eye still feels flat because of the absence of reflection and dimension despite my attempt with the highlights
• The hands show a lot of contrast. My goal was to make them look dead!
• The shoulder and neck/ neck and head don’t have as much contrast as I had hoped making them just slightly blend into one another.
• This painting is based off of the Taski Maiden from ENA: Dream BBQ

[vale timber]

Hello! Im not a pro but i tried to do a quick paint over to help!

i think if you want to make certain things pop, you should use your reference to guide you with the lighting

there are certain values in greyscale that are darker and shape the piece more

the eye has a lot of white so it makes it stand out more and the background is lighter so it makes everything around stand out

i'm not good with colors though 😭 so good luck with that part!

anyways idk if this helped a little but i think as long as you use your reference in every aspect you should be able to fix most of those contrast problems!