I like it, the style invokes emotion. I'm no great artist to be critiscizing people, but what I notice is a mistake I make a lot myself (might be why I noticed it) the facial features drift to the right as you work your way down, I don't know about you but with me it's from getting tunnel vision an one spot before getting all the shapes and placements right. Try spending a little more time on the placement of shapes, biggest to smallest while working all over the piece in increments so you can notice if something is off before "locking it in with detail" and building everything else off that distorted part. If it's digital you can flip the canvas horizontal periodically, if its a traditional work, (which I think this is) you can check it with a hand mirror to see if it leans to much to one side. When you draw your making an illusion and when you make it from a certain angle or view it may appear to hold up with something just feeling off, but when you look at it in the opposite direction it doesn't allowing you to see what's off. Not sure if I explained that right and hope that helped. nice work!
Thanks for the advice! Yeah I see what you mean about the values on the shorts and looking at the real picture it wouldn't even have really been an exaggeration either. I can really see the lack of definition and sharpness on the left limbs now too after you said something and how a sharper definition would better describe their separate positions, will remember it next time I want to set two overlapping objects apart from each other. Yes this was done in photoshop, probably 90-95% was done with a hard round brush w/ pen pressure opacity, then I used a soft round to blend the rounder soft shapes, and probably about less than 2 minutes with a stippled brush in the hair and the beard. Also got the free trial of mischief, looks cool, I'll have to give it a whirl tomorrow. Once again thank you for the advice, I'm self taught and have a full time job and family, so having people point out my mistakes in the absence of art lessons and teachers is really awesome.
I think the face might be leaning to the right, try looking at it with a mirror to see.
Have noticed to that my male lower bodies seem to come out not as good as the upper, might also do some studies on male legs, possibly feet too for both genders, I think I may also try starting my detail on the feet, legs and hands of my mid length poses because they often go unfinished once time runs out, which means I must not be training my brain to understand them, do you believe this would be a good use of time, or that it's just a matter of working on more observation? Once again thanks for the crit, it is really appreciated.
Thank you, for the advice, will go for cross hatching on the next one, yeah the leg came out monstourously huge, I think I got focused on putting too much detail on the upper body instead of working the whole piece and making sure that ALL of it looked good and ran out of time.
looks good. The proko site is really good for this.
looks pretty good to me the proko site is good
