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Old 12-31-2002, 09:19 AM   #2
Sharon Knettell Sharon Knettell is offline
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Philippe, you are quite a skillfull draughtsman. Your line work is energetic and varied. There are two areas that I would like to comment on.

A: The eye to the left, though expressive is too bold. The other eye needs to be stronger or the nearer eye needs to be softer. There should be a balance between the two.

B: The still life. I don't know if this is finished, but the yellow object is very distracting. After the eye, that is the first thing I noticed. These two equally strong elements war with each other, pulling the composition apart.The still life and figure need to be better integrated . One thing I like to do is to make a coherent shape of the complete still life. In other words the still life should be one shape and all of the elements darker than the figure. That would bring the focal point of the picture back to the head and make an interesting frame. The objects in the foreground should be softer than the face.

Sincerely,
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