W.....o.....w - nice work Phil! - Loving your concepts dude.

Thanks Gary! I'm gonna drop you a note...it's been a while since we talked.

How many hours do you need for this?
Do you use any submittals?

It looks innovative and bizare.

only one word. great!

skurealer: This was actually a quickie I ended up spending a little more time on. All in all maybe, 8 hours. I didn't want to refine it too much so I didn't lose the looseness and flow of the image.

I don't know what you mean byt "submittals" Can you explain?

constantly amazed with your creativity. well done.

Yah, typical phil-like-style Perfect concept but little strange composition. It goes little bit to much on the right, maybe lady could have more dynamic pose, more rotation of whole figure.

Mathew: Thanks for the critique...you've got a good eye there.
However, I'm going to have to disagree with both the composition and dynamic pose crits. The composition choice is a subjective one and although the focal point is slightly to the left, I feel, there are enough elements in the image to balance it out. I think a central or iconic composition in this piece would feel really stale. Also, taking a few risks compositionally is a good thing and mixing it up is important to me to keep things fresh.
As far as the dynamic pose...she is supposed to feel suspended and floating there. I think, not every image calls out for a "dynamic pose." Here that would defeat the mood and emotional response I was going for.
All in all art is a subjective thing and I feel confident about the choices I made with this piece. As always, I appreciate you comments though.

Wow Philip... That's amazing. Can't comment more on this... That's art you can "feel". Her dress is so nice... For myself, I imagine, that all that tiny lights are the dreams of humans, that are asleep down (or up there...) on earth.
+10

Great colors. +9

oooh, very very good.
i like it so much, especially your choice of colors.
nothing to say as critique.

OOOOOOOOOOh really cool. nice concept +8/8

Thnaks again for the comments guys

Philip I didnt say that the composition is bad I just said that it goes imho little bit too much on right (I absolutely agree that this is very subjective critique) and I was wondering how would it look with more dynamic pose. I meant when I llok at the picture I focus my eye on upper right corner, there's somethign missing for me on lower left one (maybe some nearer object like rags, ropes etc) (stille being subjective).
It just make the picture very static for very dyunamic clothes. After all, colors are just fantastic again, and lighting influence on me with dual strength

Sorry philip i must agree with Tiger1313 on this one. The idea was good and your choice of color was nice, but the over all success on your work to me is not successful. Reason? it has no dimension. To me it looks too flat and thats because you turned the character to the front. Even if you do front view, i believe there should of been more done to the shoulder area because it looks to me that is just standing too flat to the background. You chose same colors everywhere and thats my friend makes your character flat. Some light and shadows would of been nice on your character to show some dimension. Over all i only enjoy the colors and not much of the pose or composition. Than again dont break your brain on this crit, its only a crit nothing more. Anyways keep up the good work, becaue its not bad, just think more about dimension. About dynamic pose, i agree with you. A floating body cant be too extreme.

cheers...

One more thing philip, when you have extreme light source in the background, you need more shadows on the front of your character, i believe maybe that is why your character looks like that....not enough dark and light source on front..just same colors..but different places...

Good stuff, really good stuff!

Tiger: I appreciate you commenting agian....no worries....I do what I do,
I actually do potentially agree with the lower half of the image needing something. On the other hand I specifically didn't put anything there because I wanted the focal to be right where it was .....and why not.

Nightwolf: Thanks for the crits.
I must disagree......The character is not frontal, its turned to the side...if it was dead on frontal welll, then that would be boring. Choosing the an analogous color scheme (one that stays within the same area of the color wheel) does not mean that the image becomes flat at all.) In fact I am quite fond of that look. As fas as standing flat to the background...well man...she's popping out from where I'm sitting, quite a value difference on my monitor, here.

All in all it comes down to what you like and don't like. I feel confident on all acounts, with how this image came out. Composition, value, lighting and pose. It came out just the way I saw it in my head. That doesn't mean it isn't flawed, I'm sure it is. It does mean that each artist has his or her own world to describe and shouldn't be completely limited by the conventions of reality and popular approach.

Thanks again for the crits

Phil

philip...of course i expected you to disagree, no question about it. But its no big deal because its only a crit and my computer can see every detail also, but people do defend their work and i give you that. I also must say that i did not say that its terrible, but a little more time would of gave you greater results for sure. Its nice but i am sure you could of done better...thats all...

cheers

i think this is lovely. great job!

Nightwolf: cheers, my friend

thanks amik

Cool! .

looking cool where is the spiders though ... I mean ... spiderwebs looks fresh to me =))) ... or it was a spider-man? =)))

Wow. Brilliant work (as always of course) ^^. Just curious as to how you would start something like this. Do you have one of your origional layers of the sketch? ^^ I'll drop you an email re: this as well. You're truely inspirational to me!

sweet concept! you really have a mastery of your colours and your ideas are incredible! keep it up!

Thanks again. Thinking of doing a limited edition of this one...what do you think?

this really reminds of of sam keith's work on "the maxx" (which is a very good thing). me like.

great!!

Hey, thanks again

nice stuff man reminds me of ashley wood style i just noticed the flow of the hood i think it should be directed to the right angle idunno just my opinion' well great work.

It is looking good...really good.
I love the mood y created through yr work of art...
I love the way yr composition,s space threatment are done...
Light....yaah...theses lights are the lights which shares me yr dream...

It may can't express much dynamic poses or angular perspectives...but still i don't think it boaring, and i believe every work of arts have it own identity and styles...any way i am really happy with wat y done and expecting more and more nice visuals form yr side
(sorry for my bad English)