Hey all, I'm looking for some feedback on a sketch I just started working on (mostly on the figure, don't mind the scorpion/rock for now)

It's too large to post here, but here's a 40% shot of it

http://www.mainestarvingartists.com/...jude002wip.jpg

• Considering its only a sketch, theres not much feedback we can give. It has great potential if thats what you were looking for. But otherwise, develop it more and we'll see how it turns out! 8D

• Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes; it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
  
  And Neo asks, What truth?
  
  That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch; a prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.
  
  Those few humans who were either born into reality, or have successfully taken the red pill, become the focus of the movie s story their attempts to destroy the Matrix and liberate the mass of humanity that lives completely encapsulated in their pods and the illusions fed to them by the powers that be powers that will go to any length to maintain the illusion.
  
  Extreme, but not much different than our modern system of corporate government and capitalistic socialism. The governing powers need things from us, not the least of which is our consent. To obtain our consent we are fed all manner of benefits. We are programmed from an early age to believe that such benefits are necessary. To obtain these benefits, a number of conduits are attached to each of us. Adhesion contracts like Social Security, a driver s license; voter registration for a pretended choice of social masters, bank accounts where credit is manufactured for our use and other memberships, registrations, licenses, deeds and permits to insure the conduct of our affairs will be confined within the matrix of corporate governance.
  
  We are given our own numbered pod, a social net provided by the government. Educated according to mandates of the state, our belief system is further cultured by corporate media.

And, like in the movie, a contingent of agents are deployed to combat any renegade humans who have a will for freedom from the Matrix which surrounds us.

As Morpheus expiained, The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they ll fight to protect it.

Why will blue pill people fight to protect a Matrix that enslaves them? It s all they know. And all their toys, castles, comforts and consumables will be gone without the Matrix. Their whole illusionary existence will evaporate, leaving them naked and alone.

What won t the blue pill people in our current real world look at? They refuse to acknowledge they are they are funding their enslavement to a socialist homeland police state. Last month, a few red pill people traveled to D.C. for an eloquent conclusion to Freedom Drive 2002, exposing the fraud of the l6th Amendment, the IRS, and the federal income tax. But the blue pill people remained comfortably in their coma, ever willing to pay a tax they do not owe. They fund Congress and the Nazi/moron president s implementation of America s new Third Reich, so they can feel secure.

And, so the blue pill people can finally understand what really happened the morning of September 11, 2001, Henry Kissinger, the angel of death and global tyranny, will investigate the facts and tell us the blue-pill truth. Will Americans really believe the Doctor of genocide?

Hidden away on the 6th floor of the Department of Justice building is the secret FISA Court. U. S. attorneys have been going there for years to get secret search warrants from in-house, rubberstamp judges under the guise of national security. This parallel legal system can order clandestine searches of citizens and non-citizens homes. From the evidence gathered, we can be secretly declared enemy combatants and held indefinitely at U. S. military bases.

Remember the detainment camps those paranoid conspiracy theorists told you about years ago?

U.S. officials claim they can detain and interrogate enemy combatants until the executive branch declares an end to the war on terrorism. This includes no access to lawyers or family members; investigations, interrogations, trials and punishments can be held without the protections secured by the Constitution. The Nazi/moron president s administration says there is ample precedent for what it is doing. Are we following the ample precedent of a man named Hitler?

Meanwile, the Congress has passed the American Gestapo Authorization (Homeland Security) Act which defines a terrorist as: The term terrorism means any activity that involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources; and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State or other subdivision of the United States; and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

• cant see well with dark bg, maybe switch bg to white so i can see the sketchness?

Here's a smaller/white background version for those who can't see with the dark background, but you lose the lighting effect.



@Magus - Thanks, my concern with the sketch was for general anatomy crits. ^^;

Start of the colors, and now I must be off to bed. Critique the colored too if you wish?

The upper arm closest to the viewer is a tad short. I also feel that his shoulders should be rolled forward a but more, his back a little more relaxed. He looks pretty stiff at the mo'.

Originally Posted by stilettolover

The upper arm closest to the viewer is a tad short. I also feel that his shoulders should be rolled forward a but more, his back a little more relaxed. He looks pretty stiff at the mo'.

Great, thank you.

in your started color version, if thats his ear in the gap of hair (sorry bit blind, no glasses) then its too low ^^;; and maybe the curve of his left eye is a bit too much since it no longer goes along the "line" where his ear could be? otherwise.. ooohhh what a babe, looks like he wants to beat the living crap outta me ^o^

Ooo, thanks Jitsu! Ears always get the best of me. D: ^_^