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Robert-Shane

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Artist // Professional // Digital Art
  • United Kingdom
  • Deviant for 14 years
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My Bio
I'm a 'wannabe' Star Wars artist!

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Favourite Visual Artist
John Byrne, Mike Zeck, Paul Smith, Mike McMahon, Barry Windsor-Smith, Alan Davis, Alex Ross
Favourite Movies
There Will Be Blood
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Ice-T (check out @finallevel on Twitter)
Tools of the Trade
Pencil, Paper, Wacom tablet, Photoshop, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)
Other Interests
Drawing!

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Comments

:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

First - this is a great picture and you are clearly an excellent artist - so it's very hard to give a critique of this piece! But you were humble enough to ask - so I'll try.
The composition is perfect, the positioning of the characters is nice and central. Their poses are good and realistic - with just enough dynamism. (The use of the cape to add movement is especially well planned.) Your choice of colour palette is also perfect - with the soft hues and focus of the ship contrasting well with the greater contrast of the characters - which also helps draw the viewer's eyes to the centre of the picture.
There is nothing to fault with this picture, but to be super picky - I think the only space for any improvement at all would be to the anatomy of the characters. I think you could give Darth more muscular bulk - while Link could be a little slimmer. This would emphasise the difference in the characters' shapes and help add some 'drama'. But that is the only thing I can suggest that you might want to think about. Bravo!
Vader VS Link
You're very welcome. I haven't 'critqued' anything before but if any of what I said was useful then I'm glad I did.
Heimdall - Inked
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

This turned out really well and it looks like you were right to go with the inked look! I like the choice of character and his pose works well.

You have good, well defined black areas which help give the picture weight - however, there are a couple of places where you have a black area on top of a black area (like the right forearm) where you might instead want to leave a thin white area to seperate the two levels. This would suggest a reflected light source which would help the viewer's depth perception - just like you've done on the triceps.

The composition is really good too. If/when you colour this - you might want to consider moving the image slightly to the left in the frame so that you lose the empty space on the left margin - but allow a bit more room on the right side - as that's the direction of the character's gaze.

Am I right in thinking you used technical pens or markers for the inks? A quill or brush would give some variation in line width and help the transition from pure the black ares to the cross-hatched areas.

But these comments shouldn't detract from what is a good drawing and I look forward to your next piece.
Heimdall - Inked
cool. i'll take it. thanks!
Imperial Army by Robert Shane
Haha - me too! I've written more of this story - and hope to get time to draw it some day too!
Star Wars vs Aliens - my short story cover