[Cos]

Haven't had much time to work on anything digital lately cause o too much college work =/ I've been adding to this one on and off, wanted to get something done so I took some time out for it. think it's pretty much finished, I did plan to do a more detailed background but it kinda took away from the 'thing' in the foreground, plus Ijust couldn't be arsed to, I still might work some more on it, like make the red lights look like they're red lights would probly be good heh, tongues probly too bright too... but enough for tonight. Any ideas/advice for improving would be excellent, Thanks =) Ok off to zeez it.

Cheers
Cos

[eclipse]

I think it looks great. The brightness of the tongue doesn't bother me so I think it looks okay. The only thing I do see that maybe looks a little off, is the thing on his forehead. The edges of it look very sharp compared to the rest of the image. The very left edge works on the lighter skin, it's the rest of it that looks pasted on.
I hope I'm explaining this well. I dunno, maybe play with shadows on the skin around it?
Other than that I think the texture is phenom.

[kurisu]

Hey Cos, I still like it

One thing I did very much like about the last version was the interesting and powerful silhouette. This version adds depth to the background... which I think is a great idea, but, for me, it makes the foreground look flatter. Perhaps if details were added to the perimeter bg and then faded/blurred as it got closer to the foreground in the middle (from top to bottom), it would achieve separation between fg/bg (keeping the focus on the face) and also tie them together at the same time.

Another technique using the same gradual change might be to modify the color more at the center (behind the fg that emanates outwards) and fade to the fg color around the edges. This would definitely separate the 2 elements.

Hope these make some sense

-k

[immi]

Cos...not bad, not bad at all (considering what a 'tard you are)

I think the face looks frikken awesome (i told you that mirror would come in handy eh?)

The only thing to me that seems sort of off is the tongue. When you first look at it...it looks like an "H." Although that would make an awesome logo eh...have Dark Pat "H" with the face and the the tongue as the H...that would be pretty cool.

bangers and mash is on cos!

[aquamire]

makes yah wonder what kinda nightmares Cos has..

thats an awesome pic man

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/Aq

[Wildkat]

Cos, I love it!!!.....He's excellent....

I would love him as the guardian of my door....
but.....What shall I feed him?....

[Frost]

Great work Cos! I like it a lot!

Just a few comments however, if I may (I'm no god in the least sense, so feel free to reject what I say).

- the overall contrast is a little too apparent, it's hard to focus or find what's important in the pic, or what should get most attention. If the face would be a tad lighter, and the borders and background darker, or of a contrasting color, you'd get better detachment, and the face (the beautiful face!) would stand out more.

- I really LOVE the face and skin, smooth, yet constrasted. But there is noise all over the other parts of the drawing, and the noise patterns really gets the attention off your face... noise = contrasted adjacent pixels = in-focus = attention getter.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

Excellent work Cos!
frost.

[Cos]

Thanks everyone, these comments are very very helpful, as Loki (I think) said, you do kinda get blind to an image after looking at it too much so fresh opinions are just what I needed =)

eclipse thanks, I agree with you bout that bit on the helmet. doesnt look like its solid and in front of the face enough, should be casting more shadow and probably light the edges so it looks more solid, one for the list.

Kurisu thanks, that's a great idea which didn't even occur to me, I thought the background did stand out too much and took away from the head, Altho darkening it didn't look that good, I'll try a gradual blur from
back to mid ground and see how that works.

Immi I would slap you upside the head but it's so damn huge I'd probably hurt myself, hehe. Cheers man, I think I'll leave the
Dark Pat tongue as a H idea, although it's a very clever one *pats immi on his huge head*
but glad you like it. I was going to base the guys face on your look's but I think that'll be more suited to his arse

Aquamire thanks, but nightmares have cos... HeHeHeEHEehe twitch twitch...

Kat thanks Glad ya liked it, when he's done we'll get him Printed up on ya front door, who need's visitors hehe. I would feed him Immi's but he'll probably die from food poisoning heh.

Frost thanks, you are absolutely right in what you said, and even if I thought you weren't it's still your opinion which I respect and would like to hear, so do not worry in the slightest about stating, it's the reason I posted the image I think the background does have too much contrast so I'm gonna try out what kurisu suggested which hopefully will sort that out.

Cheers all

Cos