[Axl]

This is an update of a character I created about 4 years. I've changed him a bit (some influence from the Parasite/Aliens ate my brain manga) and he plays host to a parasitic lifeform, hence the purple veins,etc on the left of his face.
Let me know what you think about the piece, all comments are welcome.

[EviLToYLeT]

Really cool pic. I can't figure out why there's 2 layers of fabric around his mhouth though. Anyway, some things I thought I should point out. I can't find his ears! And second of all, the perspective on the face is a bit wrong. The eye should be more toward the edge of the face and everything shifted a bit.... up more. I think . Also, the right side of the face(without the veins) is looking a little flat, perhaps add a bit more shading to match the left side. Also, why does the left brow hook up at the nose? Anyway, I really like the picture. Looks promising

[micke]

Hey there. Looks promising
I played around a little with your piece, hope you don't mind.

There are a couple of things that makes the shape of his face look
mis-shapen(not the vein area). His forehead looks flat and the eye-lids are missing. The nose looks weird and don't connect the right way with the forehead. I suggest you focus more on the structure of the head when doing one. Look yourself in the mirror inbetween if you're having any problems.
Also the colours are very bright. I don't know what style you wanted it to be, The colours suggest cartoon, but still i have the impression of
that you wanted to go for realism.
The first layer of clothing does'nt follow the shape of the head and the folds look little convincing. Removing all the white areas at the start is a good thing to do in order to get a better full impression of the picture. I suggest you remove the white area at the bottom, cause it's distracting to the viewer.
Hope this can help you out a little

-Mikael

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-Mikael Noguchi-

Mikael's artwork

[This message has been edited by micke (edited December 08, 2000).]