all criticism and bashing welcome, i'm looking to improve
>>2798618
Not your personal army.
>>2798618
Why didn't you post this in the Beginner Thread
>>2798649
It is clearly not his.
>>2798618
Hi Anon!
I think you did a good job, there's mood in the picture and night settings are hard to deal with in the first place.
There's a lot of room for general improvement, but I think there are three things that are more glaring than the rest. These things are 1) values and composition, which tie into 2) quality of the drawing, and then 3) rendering of materials and line quality.
As for 1) there's a highlight on the face and shoulder which is good but otherwise the values are really muddled as shown in pic related
2) it's a complicated character design in a complex pose so using reference would've helped. Detail won't save a botched drawing so you're better off spending considerably more time making sure the basic drawing is sound before laying down the colors.
I don't know what process you followed to draw this, but either way there are mistakes in the drawing stage that will prevent you from achieving good results. Paintings can only get as good as the drawing underneath.
3) all materials in the picture are rendered the same way, which isn't good. Read the book How to Render by Scott Robertson.
>>2798652
That would be a bummer since I took the time to write this. Are you sure Anon?
>>2798618
Add a little bit of color maybe?