I really love the drawing! You can give dimension to your drawings by using contrast to showcase the forms even with soft lighting. For example the light is brightest on the parts nearest the mirror (hands, arms, hair, chest) because it is reflecting off the mirror so anything further away and less important can be darker to provide some contrast. On top of that you can use some sharper edges to give the shapes some depth. These are mainly nitpicky things though, I think the way you drew her face is really cool and not wrong at all! It matches the rest of your style. Hopefully this was helpful!

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Hi everyone I can't seem to accurately convey volume in my drawings. It feels like I’m just placing highlights and shadows out of habit—putting them where I *think* they should go, rather than really seeing the form. As for realizaition, it’s as if... there isn't enough variation or contrast in value between the shadowed and illuminated areas? That’s just a guess tho; I just can't shake the feeling that my drawings look flat. There are too many tutorials out there, and I easily get lost in them. The idea was to create soft lighting—which can admittedly be trickier—but that’s no excuse; objects should still look three-dimensional even with soft lighting XD. In any case, this is a problem that plagues all my drawings. Also, I still don't get what's wrong with the way I draw faces lol, they just feel wrong.

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@tamolovor 2 Tagen

I really love the drawing! You can give dimension to your drawings by using contrast to showcase the forms even with soft lighting. For example the light is brightest on the parts nearest the mirror (hands, arms, hair, chest) because it is reflecting off the mirror so anything further away and less important can be darker to provide some contrast. On top of that you can use some sharper edges to give the shapes some depth. These are mainly nitpicky things though, I think the way you drew her face is really cool and not wrong at all! It matches the rest of your style. Hopefully this was helpful!

@rainbowchargrill77044vor 2 Tagen

Thanks a lot for the feedback! Your help showed me just how overly cautious I am and how afraid I can be to actually implement certain things, especially in contrast. Plus, I’d lost a bit of objectivity from staring at it for too long, haha It really helped, especially considering the somewhat "unusual" lighting for my drawings in general

@tamolovor 2 Tagen

I’m so glad it was helpful! And I’m so in the same boat with the cautiousness, you just have to have a blind faith that it’ll turn out good haha. Good luck with your art journey :)