Ok first things first. I am judging what I see, if I comment on something and you feel differently - tough. If your picture isn\'t showing up your highlighting properly - not my problem.
Everything I say (as with all opinions) is a matter of personal taste - you don\'t have to agree.
If that sounds blunt it is because you have in the past seemed to associate criticism of a paint job as a personal attack.
Right here we go.
I see it is (as I write this) 6.4. That is around where I would expect 6-7.
My first point has to be photography. The picture you put forward is the only thing we can measure your efforts on. It does you no good to say the highlights go up to x or in reality the red is in fact orange etc. So if you want to give a fair chance to your figure then you need to work on your pictures.
Use a backdrop, you can print one from your computer, just do a graded blue to whit page. easy.
Crop your pictures closer, the back and side views on this montage use up way to much dead space.
If you haven\'t got a photo editor get one of the free ones (like gimp) then read and follow spacemunkies great step by step guides in the photograpy forum.
Ok for the figure itself.
The skin. There are spots on here that look well blended (like the right side of his head) but others where you seem to go from dark to lightest in one step (like on the left side of his head).
On some areas you seem to have good definition between areas (such as where the wristbands meet the hand) but again there are other places where the differentation is poor (as in the arm band on his left arm.
I am assuming his eyes are meant to be closed, instead it looks like he has no eyes at all. Not your fault - just a very difficult thing to pull off convincingly.
The hair. To me the shading of the hair makes it look dirty rather than shaded. Do a search for slayers in the browse gallery
an example is here you will notice all the top scoring ones keep the shading very subtle on the hair.
The pants look ok but the strips seem a bit messy, need to work on getting a nice straight edge (nothing but practise).
The demons head looks pretty good. My only real comment would be about personal preference and that is that I prefer more contrast. So that would mean adding brighter highlights (I have started using EricJ\'s white technique - well a variation of it anyway) and you get great effects and far better control. As with any new technique it will tend to add more hours to your painting at first.
Oh and with the demon skin I would also use some differnt colour ink glazes in the shadows to give a bit of interest, sticking mainly to greens and dark blue to give it a bit more of a sickly dead vibe.
And one final thing - what is that lump on the side of his head which you can see from the left hand view?
Ok I hope some of that helps. And remember paint for your approval not everyone elses.
