mixedmax Sketchbook Stuff

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Nice going Max, as I already said in your intro thread - I love the attitude and character in your paintings.

If you don't mind me giving you some critique though - one thing I noticed is that the way you construct your eyes doesn't fully take into account the 3D form of the eyeball when viewed from the side.  The eyelids should wrap around the sphere of the eye and the far corner of the eye will be recessed back a little.

I took the liberty of doing a paint over for you to illustrate my point:




Some photo reference should help you fix this going forward:





Also, I like your enviro piece, the atmospheric perspective works well i.e. the way you fade the values as you move into the distance.  I agree with wld.89 about pushing your darks a little more - in particular the trees in the foreground could be darker.  This would help you make the sky a bit darker as I believe this piece would work better as a night-time enviro - then you could make the sky darker and have the candles pop out even more.

Hope all this helps, if not please ignore.

Good stuff so far though dude - keep going :)