Together At The Top

Reindeer Knight riding into your comments for Critmas <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/w…" width="25" height="20" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="437" title="Hi!"/>

I think the strongest part of this piece is the expressions, body language, and interaction between the two characters. It seems pretty clear that they know each other and have an established connection. The warmness of the lighting is nice too; it looks like they’re up there at sunset. My only critique for lighting would be that Altair’s lower leg is so bright it seems like there’s a separate light coming from below, when everything else seems to be sunlit from the top left.

You mentioned having trouble with drawing humans; doing anatomical studies is always going to be the best tool for that. We tend to be much more critical of human representations than animals, robots, etc. because we have a built-in sense of how humans should look. Here, a couple things stick out to me:

<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="10" height="10" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="564" title="Bullet; Black"/> the whites of the eyes are too white and too flat; remember that eyes are balls and tend to be shadowed at the corners, and blood vessels + reflections of skin tend to make them appear a tiny bit flesh-coloured

<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="10" height="10" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="564" title="Bullet; Black"/> the hair is too smooth and perfect on the crown of her head, and appears too big for her skull

The background is quite nicely done, though it might help to have a little more detail on the rocks they’re sitting on, as it seems incongruous otherwise, whereas the sketchy style works better in the background as the mountains would look hazy at a distance anyway.

Hope that helps, and merry Critmas from the Reindeer Knights!