Hi @Marina Heinsohn this is an awesome piece, even before clicking in to the actual post, my first thought was 'Is that Omni-Man??'. I really like the way you've handled the colors in your update. I did a brief paint over for some minor things that could be addressed. One is getting softer edges to differentiate between different materials. The one I tackled the most of was the hair. The area of the hairline should be fairly soft, as well as the actual silhouette of the hair itself. The softness helps communicate an actual difference in texture in comparison to something like skin. Additionally, I just kicked back the saturation of the red area where the light is hitting his shoulder. The level of saturation in your current update seemed a bit too distracting. One final note, and I am so sorry if I come off as annoying by pointing this out, is that the lighting scenario does not match his environment. In your reference, we get that interesting lighting scenario because she's indoors, and the shutters are blocking out the light in an interesting pattern. When you're outdoors, standing under a tree or something would also give it a similar effect. In deep space, I imagine that you can only get a lighting scenario like this if you happen to be standing behind a spaceship in a very specific way, or if you're behind the debris of a destroyed ship or something. A quick fix would be to change the background to the destroyed subway from the last episode, or something along those lines. And my REAL final note is that if this was just a fun exercise where you wanted to explore different lighting, then you can just completely disregard the previous point. However, note that these weird little details are things that we have to consider when you start trying to break into professional, finished pieces. Hope this helps!

I'll definitely try to tweak the values so the face is the focal point. Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you!

Glad to see the first one moving forward~ It was also my favorite, the colors seemed nice and rich and I loved that highlight at the start of the tail feathers, the rendering of the eye, and the bold contrast of the blue and gold feathers by the belly.

Thanks!

Hi Marina :) Great to meet you. Lovely paintings especially that first one. The last one has great atmosphere and reminds me of Cyberpunk!