Great colours, interesting 3D! c:

this is excellent. colours, features and those eyes... really beautiful

Looks great Seaglass! :D

It's like looking at a reflection with water running down it in a world of paint like in a dream. :3 I have long struggled with realism because I have trouble holding images in my mind. I know when bodies and faces look wrong, but have to play around for hours until they look less wrong and I call it good enough. I'm not a natural artist, so for me time and patience are my greatest tools. You're right that there are so many things that make good artists, but I know there are other people like me who just need time to see improvement. It can be discouraging sometimes when we see art like yours, which is why I always advocate keeping old artwork to look back on and see, yes, you've improved. :3 Thank you very much for your comment and happy belated Independence Day!

I can understand why you wouldn't feel like drawing realism. After all, why not get a camera, right? But realism still plays a strong role in your art. You draw figures, faces, landscapes that are realistic in the elements that make them, even though they are morphed toward fantasy. In other words, to be that good at fantasy that doesn't look like some abstract blur of indistinctness you need some sense of reality. Even just your grasp of colors and shading alone is more realistic than my best attempts at realism (up to this time). We all tend to see our own faults easier than our strengths. But sometimes that is useful to grow. :3

but i fixed them... and then got mad because there is too muchh red and i wated more yellow and green and blue on your face.
well... now the painting has more p.orn, i guess.
i wanted you to do it like that but you used another style.

do as you wish.

pie

Well, overall art improvement is rather a broad topic to cover in one tutorial. Also, some things you don't really realize how you learned it or may have difficulty explaining it. Personally, what I'd like to improve on is people. I would like to not have to spend hours trying to get faces and body proportions right and instead focus that time on learning better shading techniques. I guess I want it to come naturally and it doesn't. My weakness is I can't seem to use guidelines because I visualize art as shapes to be refined, like with sculpture, rather than as an image to sketch out. So, in that sense, not every tutorial will work for everyone.

what do you mean?

Thank you.
I think xenomorphs do occasionally eat their prey, I don't know really. Maybe they use their little mouth to swallow food. I can see them using their little mouth for that purpose.