I like the sort of monochromatic sketches and text in the background, as it gives the piece the look of a field guide or a who's who sort of book.

My younger sister would probably really like this, btw....it looks like her cup of tea all over.

Now, for a couple of nitpicks: the shoulders on your characters are wider than their hips, which isn't so bad on the guys, but looks a little odd on the female character. The body proportions seem to be fairly consistent though. Your male chars both have their chins sweep up to their ears, without really defining a jaw bone. This could be stylistic, so I'm not gonna fault you too much for it. The colours used are a little flat--or perhaps a little too pure. The highlights and shadows are just dark values of the same hue, instead of reflecting the colour of the light hitting them. (I'd suggest varying your shadow and highlight colours a little more to avoid this. Don't dodge or burn highlights if you can help it--painted shadows and highlights with varying levels of opacity work much better usually. More like what you did with the secondary rim source lighting on the female character.)

Pluses: There's a certain amount of personality embued in these characters, and despite their disparity, they still seem to fit together. It seems like you had a lot of fun with them. The colour choices you have for their designs work well together--just need to be given a little depth and minor variation so they don't seem so flat. And you did a good job on her hair. (It looks as if you might have used the dodge tool there, but that's one of the places it tends to work better.)

Good job, keep up the artwork.

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She sings from somewhere you can't see.

I've always liked this one.

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Bluntness engages the strong and enrages the weak. If I have overestimated you, I deeply apologize.

Ahhh... the drawing that started it all...

I think I remember sending you an e-mail about this piece: it's what inspired my two in-the-works novels, an entire fantasy world, and my muse. XD

Great job, Mike! I am forever in your debt!

~Tashi

P.S. Congrats on four months of being here on DA!!

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Hey, I remember you. ^_^ Thank you, it means a lot to me that I can inspire others like artists have inspired me.

Hee hee. ^_^' Yeah... I'll hafta show you some sketches that came out of that inspiration sometime. There's one on my DA page right now in fact...

~Tashi

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