Wicked dice

It's hard to critique a piece that's so well done, because to be constructive it has to offer some sort of objective view that points out the flaws. There are very few in this piece. All in all it's nice, I feel as though Lenore would have this printed and hung in her (in my mind she would be fit to live in a) modern, classy, high-end apartment, right above the couch in the main room. I think she would be proud of this.


I don't like rating vision, because you can NEVER know what the artistic vision was for sure, but I believe it's something to do with the black-heartedness you usually find in Lenore, and it seems almost like a vice to her in a rich and dignified way, almost like gambling is to many high-class folk. That in mind, that tattoos fit her well.
As far as originality goes, it's certainly nothing I haven't seen before- A character isolated before a simple background is just about all I can produce so nothing's new there, but I don't feel it's supposed to be. Glamour b/w just fits Lenore so well, so 3/5 there.
Technique is, as always, solid and smooth, easily seen in the gloss of the lips and that nostril fade. My only gripe is that her right side horn almost blends with her hair because it doesn't seem to have a defining form where it protrudes from her head; it just seem to slide out of her hair. Aside from that the hair itself seems lacking somehow, the groupings of lines meant to show depth/shade almost seem sporadic and while they /do/ indeed fit the shape correctly, they don't seem to pay attention to the same light source that glosses from her lips. Of course, this is a stylized b/w portrait, and as such less is most certainly more, so this sort of thing is just a personal preference, so 4.5/5. [Also, I'm not sure if the sleeves of her top are transparent, but you can see the tail end of her left arm tattoo through it]
It's a high-impact and visually striking piece, so five stars there.

Great work, as always, Mary. <3