



My only complaint is the way you approached your colors. You'll never really see an object's shadows and highlights be solely darker versions of the same base hue like you've got going on in here. Objects tend to pick up the colors of the objects around them in their highlights and shadows and how much they pick up is dependent on the material the object is made out of.





Take this picture for example: www.7photographyquestions.com/… . The highlighted part of the girl's arm is a very bright yellow whereas the darker part of her arm is more of a dark peach hue. Not to mention the violin she's holding is picking up some of the lavender hues from the surrounding lavender plants.





If you do some studying up on color theory and keep practicing with your painting I'm definitely sure you'll start knocking more paintings out of the ballpark. Keep at it; you're doing good so far.

For your real digital painting this is pretty good. The way you tackled the waves and ship is really good. That and the overall concept is really cute.