Practice doesn't make you better no no, learning makes you better, you have to get out of your comfort zone and do research, learn how light refracts and absorbs, learn anatomy, learn point perspective, learn anatomy proportions, learn art construction, color theory. Colored light, colored shadows, cast shadows, form shadows, subsurface scattering, etc all these things are on YouTube and Google for completely free if you search.
phantomnoiz
hey bro i just went thru something like this, just keep going who cares if it looks like anybody else just keep going
Mazooe
The thing is... I care.