I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos in an attempt to get better at this. This is an experiment with a different set of brushes in an attempt to get something that looks like a traditional painting. Critiques?
It’s just a shape to practice tones and coloring on, nothing fancy.
I really like the tones and blending! Only critique I can think of for this particular style, is that the outline feels a bit too dominant, especially on the side of the shadow. What I would try there would be either (a) blending the outline into the shadow, so it is one shape instead of the subject + shadow divided by a line, (b) use a color for the line that is closer to the hue of the subject, rather than mostly gray/black or © experiment with line weight a bit. Just some thoughts, I hope it makes sense :)
It looks like a peeled garlic clove
Depending on what app you used, you can make it more authentic and traditional-looking by adding a paper texture layer underneath and setting the blend mode to overlay or multiply.
