Apparently I need to repeat every single time I post something that in my art process, I'm in a place right now where I cannot take crit at certain points during the picture without it killing the picture dead. Please don't offer it unless I specifically ask questions - I'd rather like to be able to finish this picture.
ETA: Now that I've calmed down slightly from my knee-jerk reaction, I can explain why crit - even relevant crit - affects me at the wrong times:
(a) you're looking at an extremely small version of an in-process picture that's compressed with jpg compression (the original is 11x17"at 300ppi. This is 7x10" at 72ppi). In other words: you're not actually seeing what I'm seeing when I work on it, and any crit offered is based on a flawed image, not the real image.
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(b) it's currently my Renji. If I take crit now and change it, it's no longer my Renji, it's someone else's Renji. Others are welcome to draw or commission their own version, but unless I'm painting him for someone else, I have to be doing *my* Renji, or the picture stalls and I can't finish. If that makes sense.
(And one note about the choice of styling: Renji did come out of the streets and then the 11th, and his roughness is deliberately contrasted to the refinement of the 6th and Byakuya in particular. He is the closest thing to a gangster that the Court Guard Companies have.
As an aside - I grabbed the cheekbones, nose, and hairstyle from a banner of a site describing o-nii-kei style. :D)
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ETA: Now that I've calmed down slightly from my knee-jerk reaction, I can explain why crit - even relevant crit - affects me at the wrong times:
(a) you're looking at an extremely small version of an in-process picture that's compressed with jpg compression (the original is 11x17"at 300ppi. This is 7x10" at 72ppi). In other words: you're not actually seeing what I'm seeing when I work on it, and any crit offered is based on a flawed image, not the real image.
and
(b) it's currently my Renji. If I take crit now and change it, it's no longer my Renji, it's someone else's Renji. Others are welcome to draw or commission their own version, but unless I'm painting him for someone else, I have to be doing *my* Renji, or the picture stalls and I can't finish. If that makes sense.
(And one note about the choice of styling: Renji did come out of the streets and then the 11th, and his roughness is deliberately contrasted to the refinement of the 6th and Byakuya in particular. He is the closest thing to a gangster that the Court Guard Companies have.
As an aside - I grabbed the cheekbones, nose, and hairstyle from a banner of a site describing o-nii-kei style. :D)