Such a lovely view~ Lucky micro >w<

Really love the angles you used here! Especially the first one. The way that you illustrated the tongue movement/anatomy is very fluid. You even took the time to design the muscles and tendons under the tongue in a believable way (not sure if it's realistic or not, but it looks believable to me) as it is pushed out to steal a taste.

And I know it's nothing out of your normal style, But I feel like it's much easier to get a good look at it in this piece. But I enjoy how you handle highlights. The blend of soft shading as the colors subtly shift when exposed to the light, and the hard shading for specular highlights. I also find it interesting that you use the hard light shadings in areas where there's a hard angle or were there would be a allot of movement. Normally I feel that much hard highlights would feel crowded. But in your style it really feels just right. Not sure I can explain that better, sorry.

Another thing I noticed in this piece that has clearly been in many of your other works is how you do saliva strings. You do use the "normal" stringers, sometimes with Strong highlights among the string. But you also use a much thicker strand from time to time, like in this piece. I really don't know why those didn't register in my mind as different. I really do enjoy how you set those up! Almost like there is some random very thick blobs or even particles of past meals collecting in the center of those large stings, catching the light in odd shapes. Plus its a bit hard to tell exactly what you've done, but I think you've blurred the points that the saliva string connects to other surfaces, giving the illusion of an IOR rating change in the fluid. Also makes it very notable against your clean lines.

Apologies for my observations being mostly on things that I should have noticed ages ago. Still a very beautiful piece!

This turned out as lovely as expected<3