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Idleye [2016-12-23 02:39:19 +0000 UTC]

Not quite sure what's going but I love the strangeness of the character. The mirrors makes me think of what may be going on and what the doll is, where it came from. Four armed, definitely must have some meaning to it. Great use of negative space as well. The composition is good. Actually now that I zoom into it, did you use some sort of texture for parts of the piece? i.e. the mirror. What is the black thing in the mirror. Why do some of them have red spots? I suppose these are questions that will probably be answered in the story. But any piece that brings curiosity is a good piece, imo. Though I feel like the character is a bit stiff. I'd suggest you study more gestures though it could have been done intentionally with "doll" in mind. I'm not sure how you shade but I'm guessing that you either use a soft brush, smudge or blur to blend? Just my opinion, but that type of shading cheapens the effect. If you ever painted, digital painting should be similar in it's "blending" style. But I don't want to assert my preferences over you. But I hope you can be open minded and experiment with different styles. I also have agree with 'Sneiks' that more contrast would be beneficial with the drawing. And oversaturation is not a problem but to keep the drawing interesting and bring more realism to it, you should shade with different colors as well as using a gradient. If you look at any photo close enough, you can see different colors - though subtle, in what you'd even think may be the most monochromatic image. 

I hope that helps and I hope you don't take it to heart, if I was blunt... 

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Sneiks [2016-12-22 07:06:28 +0000 UTC]

Howdie! Greetings from Project Comment!
The piece overall is amazing, but it has some flaws too, like every piece. These are actually flaws that I faced too but managed to overcome them, so I'm sure you will too.
1. The shading: The shading's good but I think it could be more extreme, especially where the clothes overlap, that's where the darker tones would have to be almost pinch black. Also, I advise you to shade not only with tones of black and white, but with other colors too. So if the clothes have the main color warm blue, try to shade them with a (dark) version of a cold blue. 
2. The background: When the background is white, like in your painting  the parts of the object (doll) "touching" the backrgound should be darker, to make contrast. here the background is black, like on the painting, make the parts touching it bright. If you do this, the doll will stand out as it should. The hair is almost invisible even though you put the black painting underneath it. I suggest you make the shading on it even darker. Experiment with edges to see what fits and you'll learn a lot.
That's pretty much all from me, have a nice day!

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