Midori Nova

[water dog]

your hair shading ability is amazing buddy but for real

she looks like a stick with clothes draping on it and a human head

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also your mixture of anime and realism features is really screwing up my brain matter

her eyes are GIGANTIC which would be okay if we were dealing with anime style here but you made them realistic so it looks like she has some sort of skull deformity going on

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also another note dithering is HORRIBLE. your dithering is fine, you do it well, but in general, dithering makes a piece looks so fucking static it feels like a statue

dithering should only be used for blending colors in iffy spots, and should be used subtly

i know a lot of the "greats" use dithering as a main gimmick to their styles, but they really are clueless, and i guarantee you and piece that looks good with dithering would, a majority of the time, look better without it. if you are not working on a color limit here then there is not reason to use dithering except for texture. make some proper midtones to blend your colors

on the subject of colors, your colors could also use some work. generic saturated lime green, generic saturated blue etc. try using some more subtle colors (i hate that i used subtle twice in this post...). also i'm not one to question peoples design choices but a plain t-shirt and jeans is kind of ... mad generic

i would also liek to point out i'm not baggin on your shit, your coloring is very nice and refined and i'm jealous of your hair shading ability, but a lot of your general anatomy and design could use work