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Your work often looks like it is made from manipulated photos, not hand-drawing. If you traced or did filters on a photo and added some details, it seems kind of deceiving to call it "drawing".
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I think I understand the distinction you're making, so please take the following just as a critique. When you work very carefully from photos--so carefully that the "photographic" aesthetic aspects of the original are carried over into the final piece, I think it undermines the organic elements that make artwork look like a human product. When traditional artists work from photos, they typically reinterpret the underlying structure and form of the subject, rather than the individual patches of color that comprise the surface. For example, Norman Rockwell worked extensively from photos and even traced onto his canvasses using a projector. However, he enlivened the source material through caricature and artistic reinterpretation, rather than exact copying. There is a reason for that. Artists who draw/paint from life create finished works that do not look like photos, even if their technique and style are "realistic" and intensely refined. The way human eyes see form and color is different from the way cameras do, and things are lost in translation. I respect the amount of careful work you obviously put into the process of doing these pieces but I don't think the finished work is served well by your approach.
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Feb 1, 2015 17:56
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same
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Feb 11, 2015 21:03
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Hey Humboldt Squid, you might benefit from this video about smoothing out your rendering: https://vimeo.com/45202609
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Feb 17, 2015 22:23
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Imaginary Friend posted:Nice coloring! Is there a story behind this.. uh slimey can-beast? Rotate the ribcage a bit forward -- people lean forward when they run.
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Feb 26, 2015 17:24
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Keep on truckin'
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Feb 27, 2015 22:29
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I feel you, man. 
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