Hello Joey, thank you for posting your work. I've seen some of Marco's videos, so I understand what you've done with the colour vibration and the added colour to the shadow colours. The key issue is the brushwork, both the edge design and the rough handling of detail. When painting in an element, like the light on the wooden boards or the shadow under the mask, make sure you're using the right brush size and are not leaving gaps. The focal point should be well drawn with clearly defined edges. The colour vibrations should blend in with the surrounding values. I think I've found your reference, and it's a better design than this. The straps disrupt the simple shape of the mask and give it dynamism, the blood drips into the eye hole below and the nose is softer. The scratches on the wall of the painting are scattered, careless. maybe it wasn't meant to be a typical three-stroke slash, but it crosses over the details of the wood and the 13, like a random, irrelevant detail of the wood's weathering. The lighting is boring. If it were the spotlight from a torch it would be a better design and imply a character looking for something, or if it were a soft, spread out white, it would be like overcast lighting and the hockey mask's wearer is dead and forgotten, the killer still out there. It's also too saturated and the shadows should be black at the least. All of these are minor details, the technical execution is great and it's time to enhance the design and storytelling. I've edited it in red, you can see more feedback there. I hope you can read my handwriting. Thank you.

Day 47! I did it!! yaaaaay. I am very proud of myself that I was able to stick with my original plan and complete all the assignments and lessons. I will make another tracing and also make a fully rendered figure drawing for funsies sometime soon to test my newly learned abilities :D I feel like I improved so much.

Awesome work. What did you do this in?

One thing I'd suggest is using bold, heavy contour lines like the one you used on the right side of the woman's face in the first (left) pic. Since that side of the head is in shadow and closest to us, I'd use a similar line except maybe a little thicker. David Finch has a video about line drawing where he talks about this. Maybe try that out?

I'd like to see the "reaper" figures head shifted a little more over to the right of center. It's a cool idea. Maybe you should do one like this with the entire figures. It's based on the Pieta right?

Both are really cool designs. I'd like to see you push the weird factor even more, like into Dark Souls territory.

I love how you simplified the form. Something about the way the birds are arranged seems like it could be improved. What if you used only two birds? Maybe use the one on the lower right and have one of the left with its wings in a similar position except facing downwards, as if the two birds are circling the girl in a counter clockwise motion. Does that make sense? Or some other arrangement that gives the sense of the birds flying around the figure.