[Cicinimo]

On a cool calm night in a distant land, where the palm trees always blow sideways and there are ancient ruins randomly placed, an incredibly boring and rigid cyber assasin poses for a quick (or not so quick) painting.

Hey, Im 15, a wannabe artist, and just started trying digital art. This painting is my second in photoshop. Its not very exciting (But I plan to make my next one interesting with cool lighting, motion, action, lighting, and an interesting perspective) but heres my painting experiment, in three different sizes:
http://cicinimo.50megs.com/darkmansmall.jpg http://cicinimo.50megs.com/darkmanmedium.jpg http://cicinimo.50megs.com/darkmanlarge.jpg

Tell me what sucks (other than 'everything') so I can try and improve.

*by-the-way; how do I post the picture so you can see it without following the link?
isnt it something like:

[/img]cicinimo.50megs.com/darkmansmall.jpg[img] ?

[Icannon]

you're good for your age. lighten up on the dodge and burn, it doesnt need so much contrast. generally, play with less detail.. like all the tiny rinkles and stretches in the shirt are very strange and take away from the realism. not that you should be aiming for realism, but it's a good practice.

[Cicinimo]

I agree, I did way to much with the dodge; burn tool and too much detail. On my next painting I think I'll try and do more with the airbrush tool, and go for an exciting picture rather than a really detailed one. This one was good practice though.

Anyone else have any crits? please??