This is awesome Paul! The lighting and pose is awesome! Keep up the good work!

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awesome job! I have no patience to do this kind of stuff >.<

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It looks very good. I love the lighting and texture and color, and the pose is very cool as well. The only critiques I have are that the side of his face looks kind of long. I feel like his neck should be bent a little more, and the ear should be closer to his face. Or his face shouldn't be out so far over his collar. Also, his chest looks a little flat. Even if you didn't add a line, putting a subtle highlight in there showing he had a little muscle would improve it, if you ask me.

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Very nice! The lighting is fantastic. The only thing I can think to critique is that the arms look like they're too different lengths. The sword hilt = pure awesome ^^

Hmm, I saw your comment here and I just had to say, the arms are actually really well done in proportion to one another. Cutting one out in photoshop and putting it on the other one shows they're basically the same length and width.

I can see that the forearm of the character's right arm may look a little thin, but it's also farther away so... they look ok to me.

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Nope, look at the forearms, top one is longer...

I didn't say they were badly done, I think the painting is excellent. He asked for advanced critique, so I pointed out what looked a little off. ^^ No hard feelings, K?

Nice job

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Eh? I don't think so, but agree to disagree.

No hard feeling here, never were.

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"Each event is preceded by prophesy; but without the Hero there is no event"

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HEY!!! Awesome work! I love all of it's composition. His pose is simply astounding, and I love the way you used the colors! Nice job!

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