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[Dark Ram Demon]

Peculiar

I guess I'll start from the head and move down.

The head is really nicely done, and its probably the best bit. I love the detail on it.

The clothes are fairly decently done. It would have been nice to get a bit of shading on it.

I'm not too keen on the position of the hands. They don't make him seem so evil. He looks more like a door-to-door salesman.

The legs are much too short, in my opinion.

The writing is kinda looks like the sorta thing a 9-year-old does on their drawings, and takes away from the picture.

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[dreamy cloud]

Psychedelic

It's nice, but a bit simple.

Although I like the colours, it would have been nice to stay with the purple closer to the centre, as it gets a bit murky and brown. Maybe you should have started with a light purple and made it get darker in the middle..

They aren't really clouds, are they? More like a hurricane or something. It's certainly some part of a psychedelic forecast.

For some reason it reminds me of the film "Donnie Darko", which is a good thing, I think.

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kiwi-kiwi responds:

Thanks. I will remember what you said about the colors, maybe try it the next time I'll do something similar.
They do resemble a hurricane, yes, but I liked more the idea of a dreamy cloud.
As for Donnie Darko, sorry, never heard of it.

[Star Fairy]

Better colours

Unlike the other 2 I've reviewed, I like the colour scheme you've used.

However, I feel it needs something more, a bit more detail like your other ones.

Also, the wings look really messed up, and not symmetrical at all. I know its hard when you've got it at a weird angle, so maybe you should have taken more time over it. However, although their positioning is wrong, they actually have a nice feel to them, with the white outlines.

I'm not too keen on the shooting stars. When I first saw it, I thought the fairy was crossing the road :P

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EchoRun responds:

Those wings were a pain! She's sitting at an angle, so I had to have the wings at different angles too because they all go off in different directions (the upper pair fanned out and the lower pair more held together). I started with the wings on one side, copied them then played with the perspectives of the copes for the wings on the other side. Very fiddly. I think the bit that messed up the most for that was that I made her right wing too long (up and down), as we look at it. Stupid wings...

Thanks for the review.

[Demon Scorcery]

Detailed

As I said on your other piece, a better colour scheme would have been nice. Blue and red doesn't go that well.

I love the detail on the demon and the pedestal. You've perfectly captured the essence of the magic.

However, the demon's face looks a bit like an old woman's, which takes away from the power of the drawing.

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EchoRun responds:

I have never seen much trouble with blue and red, so long one is only in small amounts. So 90/10 red/blue wouldn't be so bad, but 70/30 would start to look naff. Also, with some of the blue starting to lean towards green I was trying to get a bit of a contrast going - an easy way to make things stand out so long as you don't go too OTT. I think I could have done better with that but at the time my colour tecs weren't what they are now.

An old woman's face? LOL. Never looked at it like that! If I squint I suppose I can see what you mean, I just find that funny. (I tease my creations from time to time).

Thanks for the review.

[Servant of the Gods]

Really good.

I like how you've blurred everything, but it is still obvious what it all is.

I love how the white spine on this creature echoes the lightning, bringing the piece together.

I'm quite a fan of colour schemes, so thought it would be nice if you had changed the colour of the creature to something more fitting, such as a light green. It would have completed it in my opinion.

Anyway, great work!

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EchoRun responds:

I suppose with making the snake blue/purple, I was trying to echo colours associated with the storm, and trying to make it stand out from the background. Green would (unless I were very careful) put it at risk of becoming 'lost' in the mostly green background. It would take a very experienced and talented artist to pull off a green snake on that background.

Thanks for the review.

[Good ol' hank]

Still fairly average.

I like that you added a background this time, and the lack of writing makes it better.

However, as always it needs colour. IIf you don't want to do that, you could at least have some contrast in shading, instead of block shading. For example, have one side of him a bit darker. Lighting is very important in art.

I still want you to try something digitally :)

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[Hank MC 6]

I've seen better.

It's not bad. Some of the lines could be improved, and it desperately needs colour.

Another thing I would suggest is the use of a background, to make it more interesting.

It would be nice to make it digital. If you have Flash, Photoshop or GIMP you could simply import it and trace over it, then colour it. This would make it much better.

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[Save us 222]

Interesting..

I like the colours and brush-strokes, except the black knife-like structure. I would have liked to see less of the blank page too.

I'm going to be an art snob now.

In most forms of art, I will judge on talent. When it comes to abstract, there needs to be more.

I find it hard to gather an emotion from this, or even a meaning. Please don't try to explain it to me, because in my opinion, if it has to be explained, it isn't good enough. It should be instantly obvious the thought behind this, and to me, it isn't.