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The Showdown

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Charcoal on paper. 32x40 in. 2010
Image size
1200x789px 607.99 KB
Make
FUJIFILM
Model
FinePix S1000fd
Shutter Speed
1/25 second
Aperture
F/2.9
Focal Length
7 mm
ISO Speed
400
Sensor Size
1mm
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Oh!!!! This is really well done. And such a cool concept! As a fellow traditional art student (though at a different univ) I'm going to go ahead and give you a more rigorous critique than I would normally do here. That said I am just learning too.

I really like the way you've rendered this. The folds on the t-shirts look great and completely natural. I think you could bump the contrast up some, but then again that would draw more attention to them, and they are not the focus.

The anatomy is well done as well, and I really like the dinosaurs as well. The shadows look good and really help the figures stand out. The one anatomy portion that looks a little off to me is the right arm and hand of the person on the left (as we are looking at them). The arm just looks a little fuzzy and there seems to be a deep groove in the heel of the hand. That could be a shadow, but the lighting is throwing the shadows onto the wall.
The facial expressions are really well done!

Two other small points. I'm not sure what you want the main focal point to be. The focal point should have the greatest level of detail, right? My eye wants to make the dinosaurs the main focus, but then I am drawn to the faces too. And the level of detail in the left hand of the left person is really high (well done, btw). So I'm thinking that maybe if the contrast levels were a bit higher in the dinosaurs it would help the eye to focus on them. The other thing is that there is a bit of haloing on the bottom portion of their shirts.

Excellent work and I hope you don't mind the detailed analysis. A very enjoyable piece indeed. (BTW, is this a self-portrait??)

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