Whip it!

[art vandelay]

This is a reworking of an old acrylic I painted a few years ago, using Painter and Photoshop. This or something very like it may appear in a calender for 2008 but I'm still in talks.

As an aside can anyone tell me why I can't view any of the images posted in my gallery, can anyone else see them?

[Dragonictoni]

The main problem I see with the picture is the pose itself, its very.. crunched, and the left hand looks snapped down. The legs bending right but the body is bent almost out of proportion to the right. Another thing is that he looks a little short, maybe make his legs extended?

[emily g]

The gallery part of the website isn't working right now, so nobody can view images there.
Feel free to start up a sketchbook in the sketchbook forum, though. It's a nice place to post a collection of your art.

[art vandelay]

Thanks for the crit, I agree and will certainly bear your suggestions in mind.

RE: gallery. Thanks, I can stop swearing at my pc now.

[Justin.]

I think the piece could have used more contrast and saturation... so I provide a bit of a sample to inspire you;

[Brendan N]

You're also being far too conscious about the borders of your canvas. I see no reason why for instance the whip cannot fly off the page and come back on, leading the viewer's all around the show. Don't think of the edges of your canvas as the border of the picture you are trying to paint, rather see them as something like the frame around the most interesting part of the picture you want to paint.

Also work on the forms - they aren't communicating as 3d dimensional right now. Like the feel of the character though, and whilst your colours are lacking I like the palette you have chosen.

Keep painting, hope this dribble was of some help.
cheers!

[Beelow]

My thoughts, focus and your anatomy, pertaining to what BrendanN has already said, design of the overall piece is not really interesting to look at. I think a pose should also have a sense of purpose, which I am not understanding why he is posed the way he is. Is he attacking? Just some general thoughts I think that you need to revise to make your painting successful. You seem to know things, you just need to step a notch, you can either start over or continue to solve this, personally I'd start over to get something better or just paint over the stuff that just really is not getting the idea across. I just wanted to add that to the crits that you have already recieved. Don't worry about starting over, alot of my drawing and paintings are never taken to finish because of poor choices, usually because of design and composition. Good luck with the calender. XD