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Could you post a picture or two of the look you're going for? It would be easier to help you if we knew how you'd eventually like your miniatures to look when you've got more experience.

The details on both of the models get lost in the colour scheme for me. Adding some contrast would really help to make those details pop out.
Also the feet of your chaos lord is not finished.
Then again this might be the look you are going for, as corpus chain said you need to tell us what look you want and we then can happily help you out.

New to forum, not to painting. They look better in person. The cape on the chaos lord didn't come out well though.

Perhaps you could try picking out the icon on his cape?

Your Chaos Lord is more defined in his individual components, the best looking part being the back/spine, not considering the cape.
The Hellbrute has a rather uniform appearance due to that heavy reddish do-over covering the majority of the model (same on the front of the Chaos Lord).
Overall, I think you should focus more on seeing minis as made up by different and separate components and maybe have a slower and more patient approach, to try and achieve a cleaner look.
Giving that bloody/dirty/gory wash-over can help binding a mini like that and its parts together but you're overdoing it by a large degree, in my opinion.

I think the appearance of both minis would benefit greatly by some clean and strong dark wash in the crevices/recesses and some highlighting.

Keep it up!

I got so carried away with the flesh on the hellbrute that I forgot to highlight the armour