Well, I could be extremely critical and point out every little minuscule flaw I see, but that wouldn't help either one of us and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it . Plus, some of them I'm not entirely sure whether it is the drawing or your scanner .

A few of the major ones that I noticed right away though:

1.) The shadowing under the chin. In two spots it juts out like some sort of batman-esque cape shadow, and the lowest edge is slightly too defined/sharp.

2.) The dimple on his left (our right) cheek. It's placement makes his lips appear to be beveled out of his skin, kind of like joker. Dang, two batman references... I checked out your reference photo and noticed the mark is more to the upper right of the image, longer, and slightly less pronounced of a curve.

3.) His right eye (our left) is a little too dark around the edges. Gives it sort of a Terminator type of look and makes it appear to be substantially bigger than the left (right to us. And yes, I do know that you know how to flip directions ). I didn't notice it the first time I looked, so most people probably won't.

4.) It's probably stupid I'm even pointing this out, but on the right side of the hood of his jacket, on the inside there are two lines representing minor folds in the cloth and they are too dark. Following my movie theme, this reminds me of the Symbiont from Spiderman 3 crawling up from beneath his clothes.


Hopefully I'm not be too critical there. They were just some things that caught my eye. Btw, did you try the traditional "flip the image vertically and/or horizontally"? That always shows me tons of errors, the tough part is deciding which one to try to fix. I also had to check you reference photo to make sure I wasn't calling things errors which really weren't.


P.S. Yes, you could totally smoke me in drawing skills and therefore you have every right to call me a pompous weasel face. However, just remember that Weird Al thinks weasel faced men are cool (otherwise he wouldn't have written a song with one in it) and that I am very good at finding errors and determining how to fix them .

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Lol, got stuck in criticism mode. I totally forgot to mention that I really liked how you finished (?) it. Curse dA for not letting us edit our posts. (I mean, dA is the greatest site ever, I love it! Please don't ban me!)

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Lol wow, that was really thorough, which is awesome! Usually people are too scared to give good criticism.

I already read though your post, but I'll be going back and re-reading it with drawing and ref picture in hand a little later. But yeah, I did actually use a printed out version of the picture (printer usually prints with a higher contrast) as reference so I could take it to school and such, but I'll definitely look at those points again. Thanks! lol

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Lol, it's okay! Thank you!!

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Your welcome, glad I could help. I'm also glad that you don't think I was being to harsh, I was almost afraid to post it. I hate handing out criticism to people I know worked very hard, but I also know that I always crave good criticism and that it helps make me better. I never give out criticism online unless the person asks for it because some people just think they are gods and are only interested in praise; which of course means they will go nowhere.

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Yeah, I totally get what you mean. Glad you ended up posting it though, I just got done making a few edits on the drawing. Ahh, yeah, I know what you're talking about there too

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Nice drawing! a lot of details

Thank you very much! ^_^

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omw, girl! that drawing is amazing! you have a great talent! Luv it much! love, kelz h.



For anyone wondering, that wasn't me . My sister had to say hi!

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