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Published: 2010-05-31 19:56:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 749; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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At night strangers spread art on the grey walls of a grey city. And you call that vandalism, while truely the grey ghosts haunting modern cities are crimes against the soul.Model: Olesija
Advanced critique is always welcome on my work.
Of course all rights of the picture belong to me and it should not be used without my clear permission.
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Comments: 10
I'm such a huge fan of graffitti as backgrounds for portraits... This one is really great, with the colours going so well with her clothes. Great expression on her face too.
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I am a big fan of that too and worked with it quite a bit recently, so there might be more to see in the future too.
Thanks for the feedback.
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I like how she and the background kinda merge together :3 .
Also , i'll never get tired of saying the combo description with picture you submit is always awesome.
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I tried to find a spot where clothing colour and background would work together more than as opponents for this one.
And for the descriptions, well I guess completely I can't let my hands of writing either, even with preferring the visual art by now.
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Beatifull picture. I like the way you manage to give her the same color and contrast as the grafitti. That gives it a great harmony, crowened with the 1/3 rule, wich you've followed obedient.
But the big white line in the background is a bit disturbing, because with her skin being very white, the contrast to the white line in background is a bit low for my taste. putting her in front of a more blue-ish part of the grafitti would have been better I guess.
And... as I look on the grafitti, it appears to have more of these white stripes.... your picture would have appeared more positive and energetic, if there would be a stipe in background, that rises from left to right instead of lowering(like in the left of it, if I guess corectly). 'cause upstreaming lines give pictures an upstreaming appeal.
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I don't follow rules obediently, there more instinct and rule came along the same way.
With the line, for me the hair gives the contrasting lines between the white stripe and the face, also for me the stripe looks more upstreaming, first because of the getting wider to the top and second through the slight darkening to the corners, but i guess this is very subjective, maybe the other way around would fit better in with the "traditional" western way of viewing an image, not sure.
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aha! so you don't follow the rule obedient, it's implanted in your instincts... now thats true german 
the hair works fine on the right side, but on the left side it's a bit thin for contrast. maybe I need more contrast than you 
this stripe-thing is one of those rules too
it's starting as a wide strong stripe on top of everything and becomming a thin stripe somewhere on the ground surroundet by other loserstripes in the HARTZ IV-striping-ghetto... that's not upstreaming
But it's just the fault of the "traditional" viewing order, which you mentioned...
well what should I say... I'm also german, so some rules are implanted in my instincts too 
Great picture anyway!
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damn... I should read things before sending them
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The combination of color, contrast, model's pose and the 1/3 rule's well execution made this piece beautiful.
Very Well Done!
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Thanks. Glad it all works together well.
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