Thank you for the feedback! I can definitely see what you mean about how flat it looks. I suppose I was trying to do a more 'simple' shading technique but it it kinda didn't work lol. I normally draw anime, not realism, and I've never really used just the paintbrush tool on paint tool sai to 'paint' a picture either. The reason I just literally painted over the picture was to practice a painting technique more so than how to draw a portrait. Although this was a fun little project, I don't think I'm going to do much more with it. I know with time I could work on it and make it look much better but I never really was a big fan of realism anyway
sweatdrop Thanks again for all the feedback, and I will definitely keep it in mind for my other works too~!
You should probably read that top paragraph too, because most of it applies to what I was going to say to you as well haha. I do know I need to work on backgrounds for my other works, maybe I will expand more on this style for painting a landscape/background for those? I just hope it doesn't clash with my style anime. Any tips for creating a full picture that doesn't look out of place with two different techniques..?