i'm glad to be a real nightmare, so save me your prayers

dug up an old wip. this is a new shading i used for this skin and my previous one and it's reminding me of how i always dug through the popular skins to see what they were doing. they were doing hard shading when i was doing soft and now that i'm doing hard shading they're doing... no shading at all? i can barely tell the shading on some of the new things. i think i'll always be a step behind but i'm ok with that. what do you guys think?