It's a Good Day

[Redmond]

http://www.martinredmond.com//NewFolder/UneBonneJournee.jpg
http://www.martinredmond.com/

[incognito]

You are now one of my favorite artists: "'nuff said".

[Guild Navigator]

Not a good day, a great day.

[Jeff Gran]

very solid work. some things I noticed: the seam line in the dude's jacket is very straight, and it kinda looks like it doesn't follow all the folds that are in it. Also, your line weight is all the same throughout- if it's pen I'll shut up but it looks like pencil, so I would advise to try to lighten up the background as it fades back and give some extra punch to the figure. the dog especially gets lost in his surroundings. I really like the composition too, did you use reference for this?

[sloopy]

I like the composition alot. The only issue I see is with the pose of the guy. His upper body makes him look like he's strolling along taking in his surroundings but if you look at his legs it looks more like he's running (people generally don't lift their leg that high off the ground when they are walking). I also agree that the dog gets lost in the background.

[Redmond]

Thank you all, the crits were good too and well thought-out.

[I.was.ink]

This is a freakin cool sketch!

:D

[JecaTatu]

must be terribly sunny for doogie doog to be so fluffy and happy.

very nice sketch.

the first thing that popped out to me was the perspective on the piece. it's a good strong POV and adds alot to the composition. i included an overdraw so you see what i'm rambling about. the persp lines of your fence put the verticle VP up and to the left, but the guy is tilting over to the right, which may be due to his happy gait. if you were to draw a line through his center of gravity to the vert vp, he appears to be leaning a bit too far. in addition, it may pay to emphasize more the perspective on his figure by elongating his lower bits, and making more of his wrinkles reinforce the perspective... we are after all big tomato cans ;) forshortening would help too. bring his right arm forward more and cause his left arm to swing back more... and finally, it'd be good to see more under his chin. oh oh, and just one more tiny thing on the perspective of the dog. image him as a furry cylinder and then draw perspective lines to your horizontal VP... i think you'll see that we need to see more of his side and belly for him to fit right... unless he's bounding about, reveling in the sunshininess.
http://www.discoredstudio.com/sketchbk/overdraw.jpg
hopefully that's helpful, i'm hardly anyone to be parading about like an art professor, but i like the sound of myself typing ;) keep up the excellent work. great website by the way, alot of good characters and stuff in there!