Merry Christmas 2011

Hi, I hope you don't mind but I decided to write this because all critiques you've gotten so far have only been lengthy compliments...

You did well on the colour composition of this picture: playing with light and dark to highlight certain areas. And still keeping the way the light falls into the picture natural... I wonder how you did that...did you just go with the flow of creativity (while drawing) or did you meticulously plan ahead how the light in the picture would be falling?

Now off to the points in which I think you could still improve:
<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="10" height="10" alt="" title="Bullet; Pink"/> First off, you could have given Hidan's face a little more attention...in general it is a little too round and frankly (based on how well you did Sasori) I think you could do better... Maybe study his face some time (by redrawing manga pages without tracing, with the goal to draw him as close to the original as possible). Ofcourse you don't have to study Hidan in particular (unless you really want to) - I just mean that before making an original artwork you could study the characters you put in it a little more...
<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="10" height="10" alt="" title="Bullet; Pink"/> Second point, something is clearly wrong with the anatomy of Hidan's body...for one thing his arm is way too thick, and his hands are too small...they basically only consist out of fingers... Here too, technical studies (of the human anatomy) may help. A fellow deviant has written a journal about it with lots of helpfull references, you might want to read it: [link]

<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/a…" width="19" height="19" alt="" title="Sweating a little..."/> Sorry, I guess this whole critique has been about Hidan...<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/r/r…" width="29" height="27" alt="" title="rofl"/> I did have a third point when I started writing this, but now I realise it sounds a bit stupid... Anyway, I realise that this work is a bit old, and you might have already improved on the points I mentioned above...so I'd like to say that this critique was solely based on the impression this work gave to me...
Have fun and make more art!<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/h…" width="38" height="15" alt="" title="Hug"/>