awesome! Alrighty, let's go ahead and check this out.
so the first thing that i see is an unorganized messy color palette. Don't get me wrong, using many colors can work, but it depends how you use it.
For this, it didn't work so well, because you're using colors that don't make a difference.
Here's your palette.
colors shading are extremely close to the next and last. (not a good thing..)
here are some links for making a color palette:
click here!
click here too for more reading!
more!
here's a video!
with that being said, let's try to make a better and simple palette. (if the colors come out bad, i am sorry, my pc has inaccurate colors.)
there you go. Something simple and easy to use. This won't be your final palette of course, because colors won't always be as you desire them to be. You can add or remove, but the key is to keep your palette limited! =]
let's go ahead and remove everything, color-wise, and replace it with our new colors.
there you go. Now time to shade.
oh! Before you continue, i just want to point out something in your original nutcracker.
there is banding within this image. =o
read this small guide i made for nour regarding banding.
now let's go back!
and there we have it! If you can see, i didn't go with the palette at all times, but i did try to keep my limit thoroughly.
I hope this helped you.
As for perspective, i think it's fine, i don't see anything wrong with the image, just keep shading in mind when perspective comes in. =o
here's the image if you want to play with it.
If you have any further questions, just shoot it!
Rima made me do this: (pls no ban me)