The upper left leg seems disproportionate to the way he's falling.... it just looks ood to me.

odd*

Well he could be flailing
Our bodies move in crazy ways when they flail o.o

it looks like his thigh is being forced up, while his leg is moving back toward his body.

Makes no sense.

It does look a bit odd. I think its the twist of the calf in relation to the thigh though. As for the position of the leg I don't think its too different from the one fella on the left side here. http://www.army.mil.nz/nr/rdonlyres.....wn06003342.jpg

that looks about right. I wasn't getting my terms right, so ti sounded off. XD Thanks. :]

No problem. Thank you for the help. :3

Flailing is pretty crazy, but his leg looks like its doing the wrong angles, something about it is off, that's for sure.

Wait.. is it the art that needs critique or?

cause the art here is really NICE
save for his other arm that looks like its twisted in an odd way

that's all i can see x3

Let me start off by saying, this is a fantastic piece of work, it gives me the chills of not knowing what that darkness is going to do, and then a feeling of fright at falling from the sky. Great job on giving off that emotion. =)

However, a couple small crits:
~I agree with above, His left leg looks turned wrong, or broken. Giving it a pigeon toed look. It might just be the angle.
~His hair shows lack of movement, I'd expect even the shortest of hair to maybe be blown in a backward direction, just a little bit.
~I know his face and body are supposed to be perspective, but his face looks a little TOO skewed, since its pretty close to the camera, also would have liked a little more emotion in his face.

Other then that, this is still a beautiful piece! Thank you for sharing it with us! =)

Thank you for the help. :3

No problem, Thanks for letting me ramble at you. XD

As everyone else said: the right leg looks a little wonky. Gonna have to look up foreshortening for that. If you can, try and get a friend (male in this case) to pose for you and take pictures. I know that's hard because the subject is falling but it can help. Maybe have someone lay down with his leg up like that, and go at an angle to take pictures?

Also, I assume your light source is coming upwards? If so, the planes of his body closest to that source would be lighter. So his arms and legs would be kind of "haloed" in effect. I guess to achieve this you could use more warm tones; you have a lot of cools in there. (Not that that's bad or anything.)

Regardless, this is really great! The composition is very dynamic and the mark definitely makes me feel like he's falling. I also like his expression, it conveys the scene really well. :D

Thank you very much.

One thing I'm suprised no one has pointed out yet is the left hand. I understand the perspective idea there, however it just seems very small in relation to his left arm. Plus beefing up the size of that hand might help with the seemingly large gaps between the fingers there as well.

Otherwise, I agree with everyone else, excellent work and feel, just some very slight touch-ups could be done to really make this one make the view say 'wow'

The reason the left hand/arm is smaller then the other is because this is called "Perspective". Its creating a scene that has depth like you were in the scene yourself. The whole vision is almost like a fish eye lens. This is has an actual art form very popular for professional artists. =)

Like this picture: http://www.gdargaud.net/Photo/Fishe.....rSystem2FH.jpg See how the hands don't match in size? Whatever is closer to the camera will be larger, whatever is further will be smaller. =)

Hope this helps you understand that the sizes aren't wrong. =)
~ WolvenRemorse

no, I perfectly understand perspective. It just didn't come across to me as a fish-eye lense. Thus the crit given.

I think that the lens itself is distorting the perspective of the image in that example. I mean, just look at how warped the entire space he's in is! xD

Anyway, I'm assuming that TheStory didn't have the fisheye lens in mind, so I'd have to agree with Husky657. The thing about the left hand is that the length of the forearm that is visible gives me the impression that he has his left elbow bending (towards the viewer) to the point where it wouldn't allow too much foreshortening to occur for the forearm (the forearm would be almost perpendicular to the viewer's line of sight). With this taken into consideration, it would seem that somewhere after the midpoint of the left forearm the thickness towards the hand shrinks quite dramatically (as if it were deformed).

That's how I see the issue anyway, and it's actually a minor thing compared to the rest of the pic. I mean, damn! The colors and everything... I am just blown away.

thanks for the help.

Wow I really like the look of this. The colors are nice, giving a very dark and foreboding vibe. However, throwing a few subtle contrasting colors might make it 'pop' more (shade for instance with greens and blues to offset the reds and oranges)

Two things I notice right off the bat, his left arm seems to go thin too soon, and in general I feel disoriented looking at this, because I'm not certain of where gravity is pulling from, and where I(as the viewer) am in relationship to that gravity. To correct the latter, Perhaps make a more defined horizon line, and really emphasize the pull of gravity along his midline(basically imagine gravity as a string pulling down on it). My guess is that his chest is being pulled down, in which case the arm in the foreground needs to come up, especially from shoulder to elbow and/or look as if it's straining against the wind resistance.

After reviewing some sky diving photos, I would also add that his clothing needs to look a little more pulled up/ tighter to the form. In general I think trying to get the drapery of the clothing right for this instance will be the hardest part.

I'm working on a redline, but with paint, and iffy tablet skills, I'm going to try to explain everything in words first. There is a pronounced point at where the left arm stops making sense. trace the bones, and you might see what I mean. As mentioned about the force of gravity vs wind resistance, we should probably be seeing more of the palm of his hands rather than the backs.

And here's the rough redline, with still more words. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c.....ingredline.jpg

I hope I'm not being too harsh, I really like the piece, its just when asked to critique something, I look for every correction that can be made.

I appreciate the thoughtful critique

Two things I notice is the watch is lopsided, and the glasses aren't symmetrical. In particular, it looks like the left half of his face (picture right) is lower and closer to the nose. As the face is fairly flat to the plane of the picture perspective shouldn't be that noticeable. That's probably a big reason for the glasses being off.

Thank you for the help

WHA?! where does this need improvement honestly? This is great, I may not be the best critic, but really, this so much detailed and wonderfully colored than some other pictures I've seen. Hell this is way better than my work

Thank you.

i personally think this piece is fantastic! the only criticisms i could offer would be the left hand(his left) looking like the wrist may be broken. the angle of it falling behind as it does looks incredibly painful. also the right leg(his right), it just seems a little gangaly and like a string of spaghetti. needs a little bit more strength in it.
other than that theres a thin line where it looks like you may have slipped with the eraser across the second demon from the left by the guys feet.

Guh! You found the eraser spot XD I had that fixed in another version. I had to go back to an earlier save. Forgot to paint it over.

Thanks for all the tips.