Combox Critique

I want to ask Jimmy’s readers for some help with an experiment over at my new blog, Old World Swine.

From time to time I would like to gather opinions on a selected piece of artwork posted on my site. This critique is not restricted to artists or art professionals, though they will be much appreciated. All that is necessary is that you give a brief, honest response – including negative stuff – and be as specific as possible. For the purposes of the online "crits" I would rather you take a pass on comments such as, "I like it, you’re very talented" or "I hate it. I hate realism". That doesn’t really help.

Other than that, I would like to get your thoughts. The usual rules of combox etiquette still apply, of course.

Thankee!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Combox Critique”

  2. It is very beautifully done but it isn’t how I picture Mary. Maybe I have been too influenced by other artists, but her face in yours seems too full. Again it is beautiful, just not how I have imagined Mary. Actually, she looks more like how I would picture Mary Mag. without the Sacred Heart of course.
    God Bless

  3. I’m very sorry to say this but the first thing I thought of when I saw the face was Hillary Clinton. That is not the face I think of as the Virgin Mary. Sorry, Otherwise I thought the artwork was ok.

  4. Tim J.,
    Curious, who did you base Mary’s face on?
    If not an actual person, what inspired you to picture Mary this way?

  6. *poke* I’ve said this once today already, but pretty pretty please make some of your pictures big enough for backgrounds on computers?
    And I already left my personal slagging of the Mary picture– basically, I don’t like her eyes, they look a little drunk and mannish, but it does show great skill and has a lot of good in it. I’d actually like her skin a bit more…sun touched? Tannish? And her right hand (the one on the left) looks a bit too manly and set up funny.
    ….
    Man, I’m a geek, I have an urge to go find a mirror and a towel to see how your arms would have to be set to do that….

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