Good question in the end. I changed it to green to give a contrast between her hair and her eyes. Also after some experiments I liked the red dot inside the eye which looks much better when the eye is green and it imitates Noxic's eye in a way.
About the 9 hrs, most of the time is spend on anatomy and lineart. That's why it takes so long. Without proper anatomy and proportions the art won't look good even when the painting style is great.
Everyone started small. You will get there someday too. It's about study and practice. I would suggest watching some samdoesart videos on youtube because he explains things in a simplistic way and I love that.
Thanks for asking me such questions. I rarely get those :)
Addressing this now, I had to look at the eyes again and see exactly what you meant. It's all good, I was only looking at it from another perspective before, so thank you for a well detailed explanation.
True, lineart is definitely such a workload lol, though for me rendering is also another step that takes such crazy hours to finish.
And thank you for the recommendation, I will certainly look up his page and see what I can learn to improve my arts.
I love people who encourage others to be better at what they took are doing.
It means a lot to me.
I will snoop around your page now to see if I could pick up one or two from your style lol. I hope it's allowed 😀🙏