Inkspot

hello all;

i wanted to introduce myself with the inks below. i recognize many of the name in the membership form oher boards & sites i am on. crits, comments & pointers are always welcome - let's hear from you!

Nice work man post up some more.love to see what you can do on sequentials.

I really like the image as a whole, but I do have a few nitpicks about your use of line weight.

First off, the hair in general. The thin line of the hair that crosses the middle of her face vs. the line at the bottom of her lip would suggest that either the lip is That huge, or that the lip is in front of the strand of hair. Also, the end of the hair near her hand that's holding the sword could get lost in the background because almost all of the lines are very thin, which is normally fine for the hair but I could see somebody looking at that image and having to figure out that that's hair and not something from the background because the outside boundaries of the hair don't separate it from the background.

Second, it seems to me like you were very focused on 2 things when drawing this: first being drawing the viewer's attention to certain areas, and second being visually interesting lines. Both of which are huge successes, but in my opinion those took precedence over making the image pop off the page as though it were in 3 dimensions. The best example I can see to explain my position on that is the right arm. The individual lines are freakin' beautiful, but they don't indicate that the arm is angling towards the viewer, especially when the lines thicken dramatically after the elbow but then get progressively thinner when they get closer to the glove.

Lastly, I would like a little more consistency in the light source. It seems to me like the girl, the rocks at top right and the chest of coins at bottom left are lit by one thing, while the guy is lit by something completely different. It seems as though the rocks, girl and coins are lit from top right, while the guy doesn't seem to have any definitive light source except for the fact that there's an inexplicable shadow that only falls across the top of the big bracelet on his right arm.

Trust me, I realize I sound like a bit of an idiot criticizing somebody else's work without posting my own first, I'll try and get some stuff up here ASAP so everyone else can tell me what I'm doing wrong with my line weights because that seems to be the hardest thing to get Just Right. I'm really excited to see more of you work though because, like I said, you have a talent for making a great picture. I wish i could make individual lines look as cool as you have in this image, I'd just love to see you balance that out with some of the more kinda "boring" fundamental aspects.