Manimal, you asked for us to give you some critiques. Now ,come on dude you have to put in a little more work. Spraying black over purple and calling it another name is very lazy.

i thought a month ago people told me to stop wasting toys and to paint a toy over and over as practice to execute different ideas?

I think what LASH was saying is that you took an existing custom of yours and just did a bit more. Yes, you should continue painting the same figure over and over again until you get good. But each time you re-paint the figure you should acetone it so it's blank rather than reusing your existing paint job from a previous custom.

I have never seen your other stuff but this piece for me is weak and the puzzle piece is random like it got stuck in there somehow and you couldn't get it out so you were like ehhh whatevs. I know nothing of painting kaiju or technique, just know what I like. From graf I do know about overspray and on edges like where feet meet pants or hands meet sleeve, overspray does not look chill.

From reading it just seems like this isn't solid. Find a solid piece of inspiration or get a mental concept, spray the colors on paper or sit them together, see how they go, decide which to use sparingly, ya know shit like that. The piece looks rushed, not thought out and random. The base color is nice to start work on and at least you are spraying your own stuff and posting it to deal with the critics.

How would anyone suggest masking this stuff? have pics of a masked figure you have made?

Or you could just say screw it all together, get two colors of paint and drip it on the figure and call it a handpaint, if it works for Hiddy it should be good enough for anyone

You could be cheap with the masking tape and use the blue masking tape that house painters use. I've used this on many projects in my college years and it's never let me down. It can be a little tricky to use.