Rotten's Pocket

[darktiste]

It hard to understand the pose and the wrapping of the arm i would argue.I almost thought that the body was an extra pair of fins that was running along her arm but than i saw it after a few moment .I think if i would be given the artistic liberty that i would change the frame to be a little bit longer in term of height and have added a bit of the bottom of the torso just to get a better read of the silhouette.I think what make it hard to read as two limb is the relative flatness of the arm that is going under the other arm on top of that no noticeable arm pit and the elbow being almost invisible mayy also contribute some what to this visual confusion.

There also those scale coming from an opposite direction and which are much larger which make me go is this the same creature or is that something she resting on it kinda disjointed because it so zoom in we don't know your creature so we have no idea how her body is outside the frame.Clarity is important it even a principle of design which is to be able to put yourself in the perspective of someone looking at your art for the first time of course it impossible to have a perspective outside of were own unless we ask someone else but it the thought of being able to ask oneself question about what principle we are trying to use to renforce the narrative of the piece that help establish clarity.

I am always impress by the softness of your lighting.But i think it might hurt you form being able to show volume.One thing also about thing reading flat would be to avoid using putting object in full frontal view aswell as side view.A three quarter view will always establish a better sense of depth just because you see more side of the object this help give a lot of clarity to element unfamiliar to viewer. A side view and a front view leak the x y z information of a 3d space that give the 3d illusion.