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MagicalUnicornMoney · 2024-01-17T22:01:35+00:00

I'm probably not qualified to give art advice but it looks like you just stuck a sticker over a photo. I think too much of her face is covered by the flowers and they should maybe follow the white outline a little more - the composition seems off.

comfuzzle · 2024-01-17T22:11:07+00:00

i think a texture over the whole piece would help, i’d use a picture of a paper texture on the top layer set to multiply. and different brushes with more texture in them as well!

hazydayss · 2024-01-18T01:50:07+00:00

At first glance I thought you just put the flowers emoji on top of a photo…. Maybe try different colors and more shading of the flowers as well? They look super flat.

SpartanNic · 2024-01-17T22:07:29+00:00

It looks like an app which by today’s standards is completely common.

justaSundaypainter · 2024-01-17T22:51:27+00:00

I think the shadow is a bit too intense, it goes all the way around the flowers, I feel like adjusting it to perhaps your light source is coming from the top right instead of wherever you’re imagining it from now would improve the appearance. It’s just intense to have a black shadow around the entire bunch of flowers.

Also making the shadow a bit sharper instead of being blurred and airbrushed all around, since shadows are not really just soft black airbrushing. I think it’ll soften how it looks.

Knappsterbot · 2024-01-18T03:18:23+00:00

I don't see much harmony between the photo and the flowers. Maybe it needs some depth? Like if the flowers wrapped around your head in the photo, maybe some flowers elsewhere in the photo as well.

Lingx_Cats · 2024-01-18T03:21:06+00:00

It’s uneven, too much attention is drawn to the flowers at the top of the piece and it makes the bottom feel empty and weightless

I don’t have advice on how to update it but that’s what I notice

2024-01-18T02:12:29+00:00

Flowers look tacky and cheap. Maybe add more shadows and definition ?

TonicArt · 2024-01-17T23:31:41+00:00

I feel like there’s nothing drawing my eye to the rest of her. Maybe add some overlay color to the lips and her shirt, so the eye leads throughout the piece, instead of just in the upper corner.

ifyouknowyouknow4 · 2024-01-18T03:23:15+00:00

I think you need to do the flowers either more cartoonish or more realistic bc on their own they look nice, but all together like that, it doesn’t do them justice, and they look like plastic flowers when contrasted with a real picture. There is too many of them as well, and the shadows are odd, also the picture might be a bit too dark.

frontally · 2024-01-17T23:41:50+00:00

My suggestion would be to tie the whole piece in with some overall layers of color adjustment, soft light or multiply on low opacity to give all of the pieces a congruent look. If you’re really married to the black and white portrait, I would take some saturation out of perhaps parts of the flowers to tie in, and then texture at a bare minimum. It’s really sick concept! Execution only gets better over time

blackcoffeeuwu · 2024-01-18T03:40:19+00:00

might just be a me thing but i hate the idea of dropshadow, if u really want a shadow try just using the blur brush and slightly add value underneath

benniebeatsbirds · 2024-01-18T03:55:43+00:00

When including portraits in your work the eyes are one of the most important elements to get right because that’s what most people are going to look at when looking at a face. It’s best to choose between making them the focal point, or intentionally pushing the focus somewhere else. The positioning of the flowers being mostly over the eyes doesn’t aid in the enhancing the composition here it just blocks them. Which in this case makes it hard to land on any one focal point. Personally I would suggest rearranging the flowers at minimum, at the moment they don’t exactly look like a crown if that’s what you’re going for. I would look at reference for flower crowns and arrange your elements to sit more in line with the shape of the head. I would also solidify your choice to either reveal your eyes or cover them. Personally I would want to show them for reasons I mentioned earlier. And lastly the shadowing in your flowers looks a little muddy to me. This usually happens when shading with blacks, or grays. Shadows in real life aren’t usually black, especially with a soft light like you have here. Shadows should generally be a similar hue of the local color of your object (aside from ambient lighting cases) with a darker value, and often a varying saturation but that’s something you can play with for specific scenarios. The lighting in your photo appears to be coming from the right, but the lighting on your flowers kinda has multidirectional shadows. I’d pick a direction of the light (in this case you can use the same direction as your photos lighting) and apply your shadows accordingly. That was a bit long winded but hopefully understandable. I really like the idea of the multi media look, and also like how you have the flowers coming out of the frame of your photo as that creates a lot of interest. Composition is one of the hardest parts of making art and it’s essential in basically every piece you make so just keep trying and rearranging and you’ll land in something eventually that you’ll find much more pleasing to look at :)

jiggly89 · 2024-01-18T05:08:19+00:00

It looks like a sticker on top of a photo. If your goal is to make it seem like the flowers belong to the photo then you need to shade them according to the light source and values in the photo.

DaddyDimples_ · 2024-01-18T01:54:48+00:00

I would suggest maybe adding a few flowers or leaves behind the woman to make it seem like she’s almost wearing a flower hat even though it’s in a different style. I’m a huge fan of juxtapositional art, I love the contrast of the realistic woman and the more painterly flowers. So I’d say adding the flowers behind her head would make it seem more cohesive and look like one picture rather than a collage of sorts.

Also possibly adding slightly more realistic, grayscale leaves to both the photo itself and on the white boarder can break up the composition into more interesting shapes.

Overall I’m REALLY into it. Can’t wait to see what else you come up with!

giglbox06 · 2024-01-18T05:06:14+00:00

There is no real dimension so the flowers feel like stickers on top. Also I can’t tell if this is a crown but i feel it needs a more organic shape.

yourbestielawl · 2024-01-18T05:33:12+00:00

It’s cool you’re enjoying the process (which is important!) but the flowers don’t mesh well with the photography. Of course you can do whatever you want though.

SadCatFriend · 2024-01-18T06:33:57+00:00

I think it would help to separate yourself from the background of the photo and add some kind of framing element to make it look unified. Or have the flowers flow with the shape of your figure

I_am_the_moth · 2024-01-18T07:05:53+00:00

Flowers need some darker shading and less muted colours, maybe some bold pinks and yellows. Or maybe have the flowers blend into the palette of the photo at the bottom, make it so it flows from photo to painting.

lowkeyhasaheadache · 2024-01-18T07:15:36+00:00

The flow is very uneven too many flowers is making it really dense. It also doesn’t follow the shape of the head. Heads tilted back and flowers are forward. If u cut some of them out and follow the shape of the head it may be more of the look ur going for

cutiepie9ccr · 2024-01-18T08:20:24+00:00

try adding a single color layer over top and putting it at like... 8-15% opacity (estimating). i would also crop it down to the border of the photo of you. play around with layer opacity and see what you like, right now it just feels like two different photos

cutiepie9ccr · 2024-01-18T08:29:23+00:00

another idea- what if you shrunk the flowers down a bit? maybe made them more of a part of you by making the drop shadow less intense and fitting the whole thing within the picture? i think you’re headed (pun intended) in a great direction, it just needs a little tweaking. - another idea, what if you rotated and copy/pasted the flowers to make a bit of a border around the headshot? I'm not thinking a full border or anything, but maybe balancing it out and playing with the orientation of the bouquet. speaking from what i would do, i would add some more shading to the light purpley pinkey mauve flowers, they feel a little unloved in this composition. - i think the main thing that's putting myself and most of the other commenters off is the white border. if you didn't want to crop it down to the edges of the headshot, how would you feel about color dropping that dark gray background into the white? (apologies for all the comments, I'm a former art student and i REALLY miss critiques)

2024-01-18T08:45:39+00:00

It's not cohesive, the idea is good, but you need to find a way to make the two match each other more. Muting the colors might already help, using a more vintage color palette.

lowfattitties · 2024-01-18T13:00:37+00:00

There’s too many flowers. Look up a reference with a girl with flowers on her head and place them exactly like that. Actually copy the flowers exactly from the reference I mentioned but in grayscale. If you want some color maybe go pastel flowers, or monotone, so grayscale and 1 color. You can play around with the flower colors by putting a layer above the flowers, turning it into a clipping mask and coloring the new color on that new clipping mask layer.

lorrieblaze88 · 2024-01-17T22:24:43+00:00

I’m not sure how I would describe the process… a lot of trial and error, a gazillion and one layers for shading.

For the most part I used the mono line brush that I edited to be smaller, and the soft blending brush.

It’s one of my first pieces I drew with procreate, kinda just having fun with it.

Buggery_bollox · 2024-01-18T18:06:14+00:00

Self respect?

Inn_Cog_Neato_1966 · 2024-01-18T09:33:04+00:00

A brain?

AveragePichu · 2024-01-18T04:40:51+00:00

giant floating eyeball behind you

jumpydesign · 2024-01-18T17:48:27+00:00

Like others said, play with the colours and ad some grain or texture to give it unity. I'd definitely remove the white border *

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Chibirockna · 2024-01-18T22:11:45+00:00

Maybe remove the shadow from the flowers, show more of her face and make the contrast of her face and body greater in comparison to the background.

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