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Cosmic Black :Edited:

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I've been wanting to draw something similar to this for while now. This character is from the same universe as the rest of my characters.

Edit: I refined it, taking the advice of those who critiqued this into account. It should look a bit better now. (Sorry for notifying you guys again.)

Oh, and here's a comparison between the two versions:[link]
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:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

Color cohesion: You have colors reflected off of everything, and it shows - you have some purple from the girls shirt in the front man’s hair, for instance. It brings everything together, as it shows that everything someone wears/stands near is affecting him/her.

Concept: The concept seems to be an inversion of what I normally see: the figure here in black and white really stands out in contrast to the very colorful world (it’s typically a colorful person in a boring world). Combined with the expression on her face, It’s almost disheartening, and really pulls in sympathy for her.

Background: The simplicity of the background makes it really fade back behind everything, and despite the details like windows, it doesn’t try to compete with the rest of the piece. That is really hard to balance, and you managed it well.

General: I feel like you need to go darker - on a value scale, most of the piece is from the middle to the light end. There’s very little going on that’s on the dark half of the value scale beyond the black and white person. This also makes it hard to discern where the light source is. The natural lighting makes me think it is sunlight from above, maybe slightly left? Knowing how where the light is coming from would help a lot in understanding how the colors would affect one another.
One small thing to help with that is cast shadows. Things like hair, people’s heads, and the rope ladders in the background should be casting a least some shadows; adding those in would make it feel like everything is interconnected, as though in the same world, and not just random object strewn together.