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Minotaur vs ghouls

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I wanted to try and get better inks for some commissioned work which I was doing/am working on. Especially trying to get line weight better on big complex things with multiple characters. One major "thing" for me was the realization that you can mix and match brush and pen inks in the same piece - some art archangel doesn't suddenly show up and condemn you for not being butch enough to use the brush for everything - and that's what's going on here.

Well, one of the things going on. The other thing going on was I wanted to do one of those "barbarian hacks a Frazettesque path through his adversaries" picture again, and as long as I was doing that, why not make all the participants monsters so that I could draw *more monsters*? My lame justification is that you can be a minotaur in 4e. Oh man I seriously hope you can play minotaurs and other monsters in DnD Next.
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:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Impact

First...Minotaurs are cool! Okay...got that outta my system. I like this Jonathan. You have successfully combined pen-line and brushwork in a way that promotes focus. The human eye enjoys variety in line-weight. So that focus is on the main action. The static line-weight is on the stairs, door, and brickwork keeps those elements recessed in the background and out of competition with the main figures. Nicely done! My issue would be in your choice of pose for the Minotaur. If you turned his upper body clockwise (like he is following through with his swing), he would form a sweeping, curved, dynamic S-shape. The eye would run from the axehead...down the arm...to the head and body...then down the sweep of the arm...through the action...and follow the ghouls straight up the stairs...to the door...and back to the axehead. Thus trapping the viewer in the scene! Composition is always an important factor in the overall success of an image.