Reply To: New and could use some criticism and help.

[Funkmachine7]

Thats good work and your getting better.

Some tips
Try to avoid using to much black or dark colours as they tend to drown out details.

Avoid over crowding any one area, if you add all the detail to a small area then it tends to drown it’s self out.

Masking is your friend, read up on it here,

How to use the Mask feature in HeroMachine3

The best thing to do is to mask the parts you want to simple shape.

I.E. if you only wanted Sister Regina to have 2 straps on her boots.
You’d place the straps down and set them up, then put a box over them and mask to that.
After adjusting it all set the box to 100% transparency and send it to the bottom layer.