I was mostly inspired by the artstyle of sincity

https://i.imgur.com/aiEJH.gif

@Deleted User Did you ever create something that you consider to not be practice? I mean any sort of complete work

If you are open to critique then one issue I have is that the eye in shadow seems to be significantly lower than the eye in light but there is no head tilt to explain that

yeah

I'll fix it! Thank you!

@Baraban I complete a lot of pieces but I don't consider them good

Most of them I would rate as mediocre at best

I am working towards making mediocre into good right now and in the future I will try to turn good into great

Ok

I don't have a solid understanding yet of what makes an image compelling, especially as it comes to saturation and values

That's why I do studies

I don't know if the right eye is really lower in the painting.... The eyebrows are at the same hight, and you can't see the actual eye... So I don't know what makes you think that. @Deleted User @Deleted User

I honestly think it looks great

If anything so... The mouth might be a bit iffy

yeah that's what I was thinking

Following the brow's shadow shape

I don't see that in the painting though....

If the head was tilted, that would look fine

You only see the shadow and it looks fine

Still don't see the issue

Give me a second

The eye looks like it's still above the red line

Yeah exectly

So where's the problem?

Look at the line

the horizontal I drew

The eyes aren't level, but hte head is straight

yeah it's noticable

need to be up and left

if you attempt to imagine the proper sketch, without shadow, it just looks weird

But what you drew seems to fit with the original drawing

look at the eyes in relation to the horizontal

they aren't aligned

it's really nitpicky stuff but when you train to see them then they pop up, and usually it's just an aggregation of these little mistakes that push a piece towards greatness

If you say so. I still don't see it

I think you can make a case that the entire head is tilted and lower his canvas left ear slightly and change some shadow shapes

That might actually work better