still feel there is not enough contrast in the skin tone and the pants color. they are both a similar hue. looked at some bonner artwork and pushed the skin tone more orange, and picked a random contrasting color for the clothes. just an example
Hello Thanks for the paint over, shotgun. I used it to redo a lot of the painting. I hope I'm on the right direction. A few heads up before you criticise the lighting direction though; I'm using mirrored UV's for both sides of the model so I couldn't apply the shadows from the belt for example.
Nice work so far. I agree a bit of color variation would help push this a bit further. You also might consider painting in more lighting information. I'm not sure if how you're planning to present this finished, but painting in some directional light usually helps things read/pop a bit more. Painting in shadows under "3d"…
I may have unintentionally misled you a bit in my previous feedback. Shadows and light sources are definitely okay on diffuse painted models, but I personally would avoid having completely black (and white for that matter) areas. It looks like you removed most of your shadows after my post. I think it's perfectly okay to…