The piece has a great sense of emotion. Great faces! Good skin tones and impactfully I can sense the scene's heartfelt nature. ________________________ Refine it until you are satisfied and accept it for what it is. If you would like a tip on what to play with towards improving fidelity here is my statement: Enjoy the character of your strokes but decide if you enjoy the lines showing through or if you prefer full representational rendering. Style will come upon you over time but identifying what you enjoy will give you better handle of it. I enjoy when my lines show through. For a long time it plagued me that I was malformed for that affinity. Be wary of such a thought. Don't be afraid of covering the lines if you prefer a more full rendering. Drawing "proportion" is infinite in a way but comic book artists distort what is necessary to the effect of their statement. Understand this well. Also! Playing with "soft edged" brushes helps to make fun gradient. Work with some soft and some hard. Dial in the detail as if you were blinded by opening your eyes underwater. At first it is fuzzy, but the harder the edge of the brush, the better you may dial in the focus. That is what is meant by working: Big to Small. The Big is unfocused blocks, like sculpting chunks of form. The small is the detail that is refined. Use soft-hard brush to feel out this interplay. ------------------------------ GREAT work! You produced a piece into existence that was not there before! Congratulate your efforts, love the work you have done and bound joyfully into the next piece when you have decided this piece says what you want it to say. <3 Cheers!

Hey Nils, I really like the emotion in this painting, you did a good job getting that across. If your going to be a realist painter, then you have to realize that a painting is only as good as your drawing. Good painting is good drawing. So, I am going to talk about your drawing. The biggest thing I see is: The nude woman's head is too big. Her body is misaligned and lacks correct anatomy. Her arms are also misshaped. The woman in white is missing a hand. and her face is not in perspective. I did a quick sketch to show you what I'm talking about. I hope it helps :)