lots of the good things happening in this. Just lighten the halftones around the nose and check in the light.

You should be very proud of yourself on this. Great job!

I think you did great on it. There is just a little picky stuff in the drawing of the nose and mouth that are not perfectly lined up together but nothing huge. overall really good

Really good painting again Levi!

Good job overall. Ned you to use smaller brushes and be more specific with the small shapes to help get more accurate large shape.

the things you think are the problem are not the problem. An experienced artist could sit down at this painting and finish it off in a half hour and it would be amazing. Don't get me wrong, this is really good and I am impressed that you havent used oil before. But you are much closer to greatness than you think. It's all about getting more speicific. That might mean that you need to break out a smaller brush and dig in really honing the smaller shapes that make up the bigger ones. Paying attention to every single edge. Adding a hint of color variation to a couple spots. All of sudden it would be done.

You did a good job. I do wish your shadow was overall a darker value so that you could have the correct contrast between light and shadow. But you still did a great job.

I like your style. The one thing I wish you would revisit is the hair on her right. It's not well thought out or observed. fix that, and it's really quite good.

make your halftones lighter than they appear to you in the reference.

better.

I got your email. I saw this last night was impressed. Not sure what to say to you. I think you need to understand that small brushes and noodling something to death is not what it's about and painting loose and massing things more and creating big shapes is not what it is about either. I don't know what your atelier paintings look like but with either approach, drawing is drawing. You are either observing accurately and recording accurately or you are not. You could render this to photo realistic heights with softness and detail but if something is not accurately drawn it falls apart. You should be happy with either approach if you nailed the drawing. Sargent painted loose and free, not deadly accurate. He could take it further and further or just leave it loose and it would still stand. If you are creating beautiful shapes, you can do it with a 0000 brush or do it with a hog bristle brush, if you are accurately observing and recording beautiful shapes, no one cares if it's rendered or not. Are your edges are amazing? Are your values incredible? This is what should make you happy , not the technique or style . Having said all that, I like this painting but it could have had more time spent on every are to with each of the fundamentals in mind.

I think you have done very well in capturing the effect of light with good separation. I can tell you really tried to follow the instructions. It takes time to train your eye to see the drawing issues but just that you know something is still a little off is a really good sign. Each time you do a painting and put this kind of effort into it you will see more and more improvement. Great job!

Wow, incredible work!

great job! there are some nice things happening here. The drawing is a little off on the size of her eyes but you stayed consistent so no one would know.

Very nice job. On the costume, try warming your lights a little more toward amber and cool your shadow color slightly more toward red. Using analogous hues on the color wheel when modeling light and shadow creates more visual interest. It depends on the effect your light source has on your local color too. Try using the most intense color for the halftone next to the core shadow, as you've nicely done on your cheek.