Asking for your eyes.

[pooryorick]

Dark side of fairy tales, righto. I'm still spazzing out about this*, but I'm trying to get myself together and gather some samples.

Spicy Horse announcement, excerpt: "We prefer subtle, disturbing imagery to blood soaked gore. You must be excellent at designing using simple, stylized shapes, and have an excellent sense of color and texture

Comments

[kangrado]

No-holds-barred commentary:

Sneewittchen -- Looks unfinished. Don't send.
Dornroschen -- Pretty good, although border needs some work, and the lighting could use some contrast to make it pop.
Die sieben raven Bruder -- Too simplistic
Rotkappchen -- Too straightforward, and the border looks unfinished
Der singende Knochen -- Doesn't gel well for me

Look Ma... -- The background characters are great, but the rest doesn't fit together well
Sulfur -- Fantastic. Your best piece by far.
MM pinup thing -- Wouldn't come off well in the context of a portfolio.
Anxiety -- Pretty good. Spare but to the point. Ribcage and inside could use a bit of dimensionality, but it's good.
Raven Dreams -- Very good. Second best piece. The face in the background kind of bugs me, though.

Sketches:
Imp -- Seems very unfinished
Hob studies -- Shows promise, but is pretty rough. If it were a full character sheet, I'd say go for it, otherwise I might hold off.
Snow Wolf -- Good, but pretty stereotypically goth and maybe a bit too sketch-ey.

As for improving your portfolio, really dig deep down and see what disturbs you. What makes you shudder involuntarily? The thought of a paper cut on your tongue? Needles under your fingernails? Something moving inside you that you can't get rid of? Disease? I say read just peruse Warren Ellis's blog for a day, you'll find more than enough horrors to get your brain (and stomach) going.

[pooryorick]

Awesome, thanks so much. I appreciate the explanations - very helpful.

Good advice on improving. It's tricksy, though, because I can envision stuff that really gets to me, but when I try to draw it out, it never comes out the way it should. Another case of execution failing the concept... but I suppose one can only keep trying and doing more.
Heh, reading The Engine is certainly an experience, indeed.