>>11354955
anon, i think you have too much faith in my abilities. i am VERY grateful for your contextual help, even going so far to edit my edit without the original file (idk if it'd even be useful since we use different programs and i don't save selections, but still). it was your first suggestion in this post of adding the black outline that made me realize that feedback like this is something literally no one but you would even be able to put into words, let alone provide me: a beginner editor who should develop a solid foundation lest i continue on leaving a legacy where i don't even know how i can do better, and get stuck into bad habits

but i say all that to say that after all my procrastinating (and only bringing myself to try drawing an edit again when this thread was on page 9) i literally just did the exact same smegma i did the first time, on basically the exact same foreskin dick on another gen, and couldn't manage to do anything more. i'm flattered my smegma even looked 3D enough for you to be able to extrapolate from it, to add lighting to it. but seeing you do that, i remembered the stress i felt trying to do it myself in that very edit, before only coincidentally noticing that extending the corners to suggest its shape achieves some form of a 3D effect without having to actually consider lighting, so i did that instead. trying to add actual lighting again, i felt the same stress. i don't know if i can do it; i just don't have the eyes to understand the lighting 3D objects should have. i've watched a lighting video on youtube about it, but i just can't do it. i feel like a retard even trying

everything else you suggested i'm sure i can manage it if i tried, but adding lighting to the smegma is so stressful to me. i exhausted my trying-to-edit energy for the day, so i'll take a break for now. i'd post the same-one-smegma i did anyway, but gimp actually crashed, so i can't show the undo history. posting it in any form adds no new information, anyway