Looking for critique--stork illustration
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The weird thing about critiques is, sometimes they hit the nail on the head, and sometimes they... don't.
I thought long and hard about each comment you guys were nice enough to leave, and ultimately decided that none of them hit on what was bothering me about this piece. I don't want to make it sound like I just dismissed everything you guys said, because that isn't what happened. Its actually hard to not take people's suggestions sometimes!
It did help my decision in a weird way that everyone's comments were quite different from each other, rather than just one piece of feedback with everyone chiming in to say "I agree!" etc. Since everyone was seeing something different, I decided that I just had to figure this out myself.
I'm still not done, and there are several things I still want to perfect, but after giving myself a break from looking at the piece I moved forward with what I felt needed improvement. Sometimes the real problem is that we've been looking at something too long, I think. I feel like it's starting to come closer to what I envisioned. Thanks again everyone for your comments!
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I haven't read this whole thread, but I like the highlights you added and how you pulled back a bit on the texture on the babies face which helped soften the features and warmed up the skin tones. Really nice progression!! Great job.
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Looks like the baby is saying "here I come ready or not!". Very cool!
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Haha, you can see on my website that the text I added was, "Here I come!", so that was pretty much the emotion I was going for. I'm glad that came across!
