Soulafein Saerah - Wood Elf Barbarian

loveeeeeeeee it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dreamy sigh Saerah looks so badass in this pose.

~ Brass

Awesome posing, makes this look very dynamic. You can almost feel it move. 

Much care was put into this. It pleases my eyeballs :^)

This piece exudes dynamic energy. It reminds me of the 1990s classics.

Hello there! You have been visited by a Critique Ninja! We stealthily roam the site, looking to leave thoughtful and useful criticism, as per the spirit of CRITmas. Mind if I just hop on to business, then? Just swooping in and out again - that is the Ninja way...!

First things first: I see your work popping up now and then in the groups I follow for some time now, and I have to say your progress is hard to miss! Your range of values is richer, your poses more daring (^ case in point). I'm happy for you!

But since this wouldn't be a critique if I didn't have anything more useful to say than praise, here are a couple of things I think leave some room for improvement:

for starters, but if you want to keep your foot down and call in a 'personal preference' I understand that, I think you went a little overboard with muscle mass - in the upper arm, specifically. It is enormous, compared to his face.
The leg I can deal with - he's holding it up like that, pumping that quadriceps (which is already a big muscle) so naturally, it should look pretty thick. But that gigantic bicep, to me, is a bit too much. That whole upper arm looks, upon closer inspection, like there's been some oversight. I think the deltoid is supposed to go between the tricep and bicep, but let me find a link or two for you: Arm Construction Notes.
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The other thing that looks 'off' is the nearer hand looking not as big as the suggested perspective (when I look at the faraway hand and the size of the huge arm I talked about above) asks for. But the faraway hand is problematic in another way, also: it, and its sword do not really overlap, or aren't really overlapped by anything, so there's no way of quantifying how far away it is, exactly: it only makes a subtle tangent with the outlines of the cloak (which is something artists should avoid, ideally: tangents confuse the eye and make a composition harder to read. So if you're not going to have overlap, try to leave enough space between, at least).

That's all I have, really. I hope I didn't come across as being overly harsh.
Have a wonderful 2018!

Very nice. I have a lineup of RPG characters if you want to come see it in my gallery.

ooh, I like the new design a lot more! you've clearly improved a ton, and the outfit reads more badass now

I initially thought his name was "Sarah".