[paulos]

Greetings comrades,
Be gentle with me... I'm a 'newbie'

[Flipper]

Where are you from man ?

[paulos]

'I come from the land down under.'

[Bilbo]

cool pic..
the lighting from these shutters have a bit of a camouflage effect- making it a little hard to recognize forms and objects at first glance- perhaps the contrast between light and shadow should be smaller.
anyway- seems a bit wierd that he's reading the paper facing the wrong side of the light :-)

[corvax]

I'm digging the atmosphere of this pic ... Film-Noir, Bladerunner hippo. I like the illustrative quality. Good work!

[paulos]

Thanks everybody,
Very well considered and valid comments by all. Check out this re-touched version by the one and only Daniel Cox. It solves the light source problem quite nicely methinks...

[Gordillo]

Sorry but I prefer the first one,anyway cool work

[JCameron]

Nice work on both, but I do prefer the color scheme in the first one as well.
It feels more sinister. Like he's a mobster rather than a banker.
The lighting in the second one also detracts from the main figure.
Overall though, better than I can do.

Cheers

[Mr. T]

Reminds me of Tim Burton's style a lot. That's a good thing

[Quasar]

I like both of them but the second one looks like it was remasterd by disney :P

[Malachi Maloney]

I like the first one better. Either way it's good stuff.

Take it easy,
MDM