I'm like some horrible plague that you cannot cure. You must think I'm awful for abusing your in such a manner. But I'm trying to talk about art more, and because I want to go into a similar career path as yours, this helps greatly. Have I mentioned that you're one of my favorite artists? So, on with the show...

Alright, a figure piece. This is good. I think it's interesting how this character's pose feels like it was taken from a Life Drawing session, and reworked to the subject matter. I've heard of cartooning classes that were handled as such, and the students did poorly. That aside, the pose is simple, supple, and effective. What more could you ask for?

Though, as far as the figure is concerned, I always have to ask myself how much anatomy do you actually follow? Because this is more of a cartoon piece, and the figure is a monster, it's fine to have some inaccuracies be valid, bit with such simple details added to the figure, it makes me scratch my head and wonder if you're trying to combine actual human anatomy with Manga drawing proportions. Couple those ideas with the fact that there's other ideas like the fish theme, and it's like...why is this so complicated? Perhaps I'm overthinking things and this is just the result of some personal tastes, so if this part feels like a whole lot of nothing, then disregard it. I tend to think too much at times. Clearly.

The one thing I think that could use some improvement may the line variation on the figure. I do get the whole cartoon thing, but even then, a thick line shouldn't be used as the entire motif. Most of your characters have a large thick line around them, but nothing seems to really pop out unless its the use of perspective, or if something is just drawn much larger. The consistent line quality, while is masterful, sort of flattens things out, and line variation seems to be hidden with other drawing tricks. And I will admit there is some line variation in this piece, it's not prominent enough to really make me say, "wow." I do appreciate the accents under her chin and under her right breast, but even then, it's not a straight black shadow. A small hint of pure black in those places would really add to the illusion of depth in this piece, particularly on this figure. No teacher has ever penalized a student for going too dark.

This could be me, but some of those tattoos bug me a little. The design on her right rib cage seems to be a whole lot of nonsense, like things are arbitrarily floating about. I think it would be more interesting to have them be combined into one larger shape, and to have them flowing from the helm, giving it a shape and then a biomorphic feel. And that dotted line tattoo is all wrong. It would make more sense if it led to her stomach, like it started under her chin, followed her throat down to her belly, that would be classic. A little cliched, but effective, aye? But that also sounds stupid so, throw that idea in the dumpster.

The landscape seems to be average. Since it isn't a focal point in this piece, and because it looks fairly simple, there isn't much to say about it. I do think the water shadows are much more effective here, than your last piece which is nice.

Here we are, my longest critique yet. I hope this isn't too heavy, with the recent critiques I've seen on your work, they haven't really been critiques. But then again, this also falls on plenty of deaf ears so...what do I know? What should I know?

Anyways, a good, simple, and effective piece. It's sort of refreshing to not see that airbrushing style and see a more diliberate attempt to put in solid shadows. It's a good piece, really!