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11/06/11(Sun)03:58 No. 31228486 Soarin': The first thing I notice is that we're nearly looking at his body dead on, but we essentially see his face in profile. I wouldn't suggest changing the entire face, but the entire image is flattened because of the head angle. We see a very smooth line from the end of his nose up to his hair line. I would expect to see a bit of a bump at least around the brow line, to indicate that there is some face over there even though we can't see it. Some sort of variation in that incredibly straight line, at least. There's also his hair. It kind of strikes me as kind of an old bouffant sort of hair style. Lots of hair spray holding it perfectly in place. I would think the wind from flying would mess it up and send it to pieces – some covering bits of his face and flying this way and that. Not one uniform, solid piece of hair. I like that you're keeping in mind your environment when you're shading him. It's definitely helping tone down the horrors that shading purple can bring, and does a lot to make him seem more ~in~ the picture. You can do that to the eyes, too, you know. I love throwing bits of extra colour into eyes when I'm painting them. Eyes are so very reflective and I think it can be fun to just go a bit insane sneaking in little extra colours that most people probably wont even notice. And yes, you are improving on your wings. They (and your hair) are still kind of in this land of blurry, not quite finished (on your other pictures too. I understand you're not finished with this one.) but you are making great strides in improvement. Soarin's anatomy in general is a bit wonky – his body gives an illusion of being much smaller because we're not really seeing anything of his belly between his legs. You've drawn his thighs very full, and as if they're coming out of the bottom of his body, rather than him having hips that are spread apart. It makes it look as if his stomach actually ends where his legs are beginning.