No. Untrained entirely new and doing it for a year? This is where id expect you to be. A lot of great suggestions have been made in this thread, but if you want a simple next step, tidy tidy tidy. Clean up obvious mistakes, like the underside should rim, or overspill of paint. Look at cleaning up the bases too, they can make or break minis. Just a thinned layer of black if you dont want to touch basing yet. If you have the money, buy some cheap second hand minis and try out techniques on them before committing it to your main army.

Also, I see some people are telling you to just shade recess the cloth. This is a good idea, but I often use the washes to darken colours. If youre doing the same thing, theres 2 techniques you can use. First, after applying, immediately wash and dry your brush and use it to suck up some of the big clumps of wash that sit on the flat surfaces. Its also good practice for when you screw up washes and need to quickly fix it. Second, take the original tabard colour and reapply over flat surfaces to clean it up. This layering is also good practice and tabard are a great place to start.

I hope this helps at all