Thats freaking awesome! excellent work once again!

Wow this is emmense!! ive only just got my wacom tablet!! instant fave!, he does look like a soldier btw

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Thanks sir. Good luck with the wacom

Thanks!

Pretty hardcore dawg

That's awesome! I love this version of him. My only critique is that his right leg is sized quite differently then the left.

That is insane. Seriously, kudos.

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I'm not so much in Super Heroes but the pic is just great!

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Looking good dude, I like the sort of vintage style you've achieved with this. The palette is really cool, and it has a lot of atmosphere and feels really epic. You did a good job with the textures, and I love what you did with the flag, looks great.

As for things you could work on, I would say try to avoid using black, or things that are really close to it. It works really well in some instances, when something is in shadow, or if something's 'overexposed' but if it's overdone, it can come off as an attempt to hide areas to avoid detailing them. Also, keep in mind that shadows always have color, so you don't want to make the black or too desaturated.

When you're out and about, keep a keen eye on the world around you and you'll notice that even things you thought were really dark or close to black, are really just dark shades of certain hues. Look at some paintings from the old masters, and I also recommend John Singer Sargent, and you'll see that they often put a lot of color into their shadows. You did it more with you Rorschach piece which is great, but some of your older work seem to have a lot of black.

Another thing is with clothing, make sure you have good ref. It's looking solid, but the edges on the one sleeve seem a bit sharp to me. With cloth, you're gonna have more soft edges than hard ones. Also, see if you can find some literature on just basic form lighting, I thin it'll help you out a lot, because certain things like the flag pole and shield seem a bit flat to me.

Another thing I noticed is the detail in the grass. It's not really necessary to go into such detail down there, and it's a little distracting to the eye. Keep it simple, you don't need to detail every blade of grass. Blades are thicker than that anyway, so you could really size it up and save yourself a lot work and make it more realistic.

Last thing I really noticed is the hand around the flag pole. It doesn't seem wide enough to be gripping it properly, so I might change that a bit.

I know I said a lot of stuff, but it's easy to nitpick things. You did a really great job with it, and the little things really don't distract from the overall awesomeness of the image. Keep it up bro, looking forward to seeing more.

Take care.

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*gets on my knees*
`Rahll says:
lmao stop right there
`adonihs says:
*ties my shoe*
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homo}