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but thank you so very much for the fav.
OH dear. yes...i don't much critique, but i'll be heading over to your gallery to check things out.
First things first: love the idea. Show-time, steampunk, cabaret and the macabre -- so many things I love in the same place.
There are, however, a few things that kind of bug me. First of all, the swirls. Since the focus of the piece is the face and the corresponding skull, I think it's a real shame that the face is partly obscured by these swirls. They serve no real purpose and they distract. If they were just in the background, it would work much better, because it would be part of the deco and would fit into the whole 'dilapidated cabaret' feel, but as it is... meh. The ones in the top right that intrude onto the reflection's hat are almost as in the way. Just rubbing out the bit that overlaps would cure that problem though.
The skull itself also doesn't quite sit right. I appreciate that it must have been difficult to work with an angle like that, but the angle still doesn't quite work, and the skull looks rather simian. The jaw is very protruding, and this is made more obvious by the fact that its shape does not fit the appearance of the model.
Finally, I think it's a shame the lightest part of the picture should be between the human face and the mirror. The lighting of the reflection is perfect, but the real girl could have done with more light on her, because at the moment she's more of a dark, uninteresting shape in the foreground than a character that draws the viewer's gaze.
Hope that doesn't sound unduly harsh, because this is a truly impressive piece!
the skull..yes..well, honestly, there aren't ALOT of CC skulls out there. so, its hard to transform a skull to "fit" a face perfectly.
and the original source of the girl didn't allow alot when it comes to lighting. i did lighten it, but...yeah. alot more could have been done.
thanks for taking the time to critique my work.
No worries