Alicia Keys

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Critique please

The masking/erasing is really quite sloppy on this due to usage of a softbrush. Try to render with pentool.
Text is good apart from random capital A at the end of Alica. The sig is decent overall just lacking in a effects and is poorly blended.

thx for the criticism but I also need to know am i getting better?

yes you are.
the attempt at the sig is nice
how u tried the style is nicely done.
yeah ur erasing of the effects is sorta messy u should try a hard brush on some objects.
nice work keep it up:D