Excellent constructive feedback! Thanks guys! Now I definately feel like making some changes and corrections. Usually I feel like once I've said to myself it's finished, I never lay a brush on it anymore, but I guess stepping away from that idea might be a next step to level up my skills a bit. Thanks a lot for the advice!
I guess I focused on the cape, sword and gold in general and painted the rest more like a "let's get done with it now"-feeling.
Your feedbacks give me a boost to at least try! :-) Thanks!
The cloak is well blended, the sword is excellent, the freehand pattern executed brilliantly. The EYES are terrible! and have ruined the overall impact of the entire minature. Also the colour palette chosen is underwhelming. The green and blue together is always a risk. The pale brown doesn't help and it all looks a little washed out as a result. Just a few patches of dark/warm colour would make the paler colours "pop" more (look more appealing). perhaps change the thighs to a dark chesnut colour as well as the belt? I think that'd provided a nice triangle of "spot colour" that is negative and leads the eye away from there and to the excellent techniques to the left and right side of that area (i.e. the sword and cloak). There are plenty of great things on display here deserving of a higher score.
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