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I know what you mean, I did it on purpose though. I still wanted it to look like a natural drawing, not overly digital, but at the same time add depth to the detail. The whitest bit is the main focus, and then it bleeds out into the background towards the edges.
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As far as faults there are just a few minor things. I feel like the tower crates a strong downward pointing arrow. This along with the duck bill point to the right corner draws our eye towards the bottom of the page and we don't have anything that pulls our eye back to the main focus so that we can soak in those nice details you have so carefully placed. I also feel the placement of the tower needs to be justified slightly more to the right. The complex shapes and their distance to canvas edge on the left is creating uneasy negative space.
Otherwise this is an amazing piece and I hope to see more of you pen work.
If there is one criticism I have, it's the fact it's over-complicated. There's too much going on for the eye to take in, although that also means every time I look at it I see something different, something that is not necessarily a bad thing. Given that this is, as the artist stated, more of a rather beautiful doodle and grew as he drew it, it's not much of a criticism.
The parts I particularly love are the duck head, with its almost-but-not-quite living form, and the wonderfully detailed clouds and curves. It's a mess of straight lines, curls, nature and mechanical and I absolutely adore its execution. Makes me think perhaps of an engineer's sketch in some steampunk world, or a woodcut from a children's storybook, and both scenarios create worlds in my head.
In short? Very beautifully done, and inspiring. If you don't mind, I'm going to go put on my top hat and goggles, pick up my pipe and write myself into a world where this exists.
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