RE: Splinterlands Art Contest

Nice painting 👍
However, you can try to make more satured shadows on her skin, it will look less dull and more realistic ; in fact we used to think that we should use black to make shadows, but on the contrary they are very vivid in nature. The shadow of the skin is more like a dark red or brown than black, as in your Nomos reference.
Impressionist painters are the ones who really master and exaggerate this characteristic, you can see that they paint really saturated shadows.

I hope that it will be useful to you 😊