Things That Seem Still

This piece...there's a lot of things I can say about this piece. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/h…" width="15" height="13" alt="" title="Heart" /> Asides from being absolutely stunning it leaves me in awe at the fact that it makes me want to look away from the almost bittersweet sadness I get from it yet I want to continue looking, and noticing all the little details you put in. Each time I look I notice a new one, the little bright dots coming off of the creature and floating up- almost as if inch by inch he/she (it?) was disintegrating into tiny particles floating up into a fading light.

The mood you managed to create with such a limited palet is not only incredible but mind boggling to me. I don't know much about art yet, I still have a lot to learn, but I know that it takes skill to be able to take such a sweet and happy color such as yellow and use it to create such a bittersweet like picture. I think this color scheme seemed to project more sadness- at least to me- than any blue tones could have ever done.

Critique wise it's really hard to say since trying to find something I think needs improvement in this- for me anyway- is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The background is simple but that just adds more attention to the main focus, which is the creature and that lovely expression- please, dont get me started on how I still can't believe how you could pull off such a completely human like expression on something that is, quite obviously, not human- so thats not even a problem I think.

Anyway, I think it would have looked nice if you had added some grass between the rocks by the creature's front claws/feet to balance out some of the grass a little ways behind it but again I dont think its a necessary thing, just one more little detail that could have been. I'm sure I don't have to tell you again, but I will, because it's true- I LOVE this picture.