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Ok I'll try, but I'm a newbie, so take my critique with a grain of salt. Or two.


I'm not an expert about editing, but from the looks of it I'd say you basically increased the contrast, which worked fine... You clearly did more than that or the necklace would appear darker, but that is the overall impression.

In Nat's picture I think the naked shoulder is a little odd, maybe exaggerated. Generally speaking broad shoulders are more of a masculine feature, but the overall look of it is not displeasing, and you might work on it (exaggerating some features a little into more prominent curves) to make it part of your style if you don't mind leaning a bit away from realistic proportions and toward the caricature.

Both in Nat and Bro & Sis the mouths are a bit too simplified. You can do very well when the perspective is almost frontal, but you'll have to work out something different for the 3/4 perspective because the two styles (simple and caricatural in Nat and Bro & sis, complex and realistic in Girl Cat & Bed) wouldn't eventually fit together in the same picture.

If you think proportions are part of your style then it's allright, but while I don't think the heads are that much too big, the hands and feet do look too small to me. If you mean to achieve a cartoony look I think both head and hands/feet should be a little oversized, but even if you want to draw them in a realistic style, they should be larger than they are now.
Of course if you draw a comic instead of a single picture, o lot of things will be overlooked and you don't need to be that perfect, but even so there are things that are pretty visible. The point is that from the way you draw the faces, especially regarding the size of the eyes, it would seem that you are researching a realistic style, but that sets a context where any semplification you indulge yourself with stands out more.

Ok I hope I didn't just say a bunch of nonsense, but that's my 5 cents. I won't praise since you asked for critique, not flattery!