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be cool, bro.

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:: graphite, xerox, gouache, photoshop, cgtextures.com ::

this is kind of an old one, but I forgot about it, and I'm surprised I haven't posted it yet. This is from one of my finals in my last semester of college. It's kind of weirdly proportioned, but I find myself still in love with it. It was a great way to experiment with using mixed media with the computer and I got a lot out of it.



it's Ross again, I'm sorry. but this time he's about to be shot a little bit.

FOR THE PLATINUM CHIP *gaaasp* he surrendered it like a yellowbellied varmint tho probably because his friend was being "beaten" with a police baton
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PerfectionV700
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Hello Ross with an unusually serious expression. And lasers. Getting shot with whatever those are aiming would probably not be nice. 

At first it wasn't completely clear to me that the two panels were different views of the same scene, so I'd suggest doing something different with the divider line. You might try a color which is a little more different from the parts of the image right next to it; for example, as it stands, there are grays above Ross, so the divider could be the right color to be part of the image scenery. In addition or instead, you might also add a small border around the images that matches the divider, so the divider is connected to the frame instead of possibly being connected to the images.

Besides that, though, I like the concept of this pair of images and how you used body language. Ross is crouched back with his palms up, defensively, but besides that, putting him lower in the image slightly below the viewer contributes to him apparently cowering before the other, who looms up larger than (his) own image, bulky and intimidating enough that his shoulders don't even fit in the panel while he reaches demandingly towards the viewer's face.
Also I appreciate all the different textures you ended up with here. When you say this piece is kind of old, how long ago do you mean? I have a vague feeling that you've drawn Ross's face a bit differently in more recent pictures, but perhaps not.