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Ivyby *SaraRichard

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Poison Ivy piece to be my new banner for my 2012 convention run!

Acrylic paint on paper

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Submitted on: January 12, 2012
Image Size: 404 KB
Resolution: 919×1665

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Critique by *Rambling-anthology Apr 12, 2013, 8:33:09 AM

This is absolutely beautiful. I love the feel, it has texture--like if I touched it I could feel spackle (or whatever the hell that's called). Like ChiBurbs said, it gives the picture a hallucinatory quality, like her pollen is having an effect.

Your shading is almost perfect too, the way you used the colors to create depth is awesome. I love her hair! The roses are a nice touch.

The only reason I gave you 4.5 instead of 5 on 'Originality' is because it's a piece of fan-art (one of the best I've ever seen, nothing wrong with that

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Good job.

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Critique by ~ChiBurbs Jan 15, 2012, 1:29:42 AM

There's a hallucinatory quality to this that is wonderful. It gives the viewer an idea of Ivy's frame of mind, that there's something askew in how she perceives the world. Even if I didn't know the character, I could tell that something wasn't quite right by the shimmering, dreamlike, and ethereal fauna in the painting.

There are hints of Mary Blair in your style, as well as other artists whose names escape me this late at night. My apologies for not naming them, but I am sure you know your own inspirations.

The use of Ivy's hair color to separate the Batsignal from the rest of the painting -- along with her almost looking at the signal but still seemingly spaced out -- gives the viewer the idea of the signal and what it represents being somewhat important to her -- and yet cut off from her regular world/perceptions. The roses hint at a romantic possibility, although the writers tend to make it more sexual in the comics. It's all very effective, and having some fauna at the bottom be the same color as her hair ties the piece together well.

There's one thing that bothers me about this, though: her left hand. She (and to a degree the limb she's on) are the most solid things in the painting (adding to the hallucinatory effect). However, her left hand seems to be resting on something that isn't there. It's solidity makes it seem (to me) that it should have some sort of a resting place. Or it should be posed differently. Once I saw how awkward it looked to me, I couldn't stop focusing on that.

This is, however, an excellent piece. The only reasons I didn't rate it higher in vision and originality are because it is fan art and someone else's character. However, I rarely review, favorite or even like fan art. This is something special ad worth pausing to appreciate.