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It appears your schooling is helping to bring your art to maturity.

Excellent use of subtle, reverse highlighting to bring depth and texture to the black areas!

Your depth vs proportion is right on the money. A great improvement over just a couple years ago.

The composition has balance, now develop the balance of your shading. Notice that the majority of the black areas fall on the left of the composition. Balance would be achieved by making her left glove, shoulder piece and knee piece black. This would also make blance the depth of the subject on that side and accentuate the scythe.

Face: This is the area you need the most practice in to really make your art top-notch. Get Cosmo magazine. It's full of close-ups and striking contrast pictures of women's faces. Use thOnce you get the way they are formed, you will find they are the easiest part of the face to draw.e B&W ones. Draw each feature separately. Draw eyes... eyes... and more eyes.

Then the mouth. Draw them over and over. They have as definite a basic form as the eyes. Your lower lips are getting better, keep at it. The upper lip simply needs sharper definement under the nose and the curve to the corner of the mouth is either nearly straight, or slightly bowed toward the bottom lip rather that upward.

Hair: You have the form you are looking for. The lines just need a little more definement... just a little. In this style of art, definement is more important than the shading since it is more of a line drawing.

Great work, Wraith! Don't let your school "work" dull the edge of your imagination. Preserve the intense feelings of your earlier works and capture them in your current endeavors. Art without passion is the mechanical suicide of the artists imagination....

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Passion is making your fantasies real. Without Passion, art is simply suicide of the artist's imagination.

Typo goof-up above: Use the B&W pictures of the faces.

Also forgot to mention the nose! This is, by far, the hardest part to draw. Especially in line drawings. Noses are very, very unique. They are defined by slight nuances in shading. Notice that your example artists have developed just a few preferred nose shapes in their line-drawings. If you can master nose shaping with shading, simple, line-defined noses will be cinch for you!

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Passion is making your fantasies real. Without Passion, art is simply suicide of the artist's imagination.