The puppies face looks little too squarish..you know? Thats the only thing I see that I can critize on.

I really like this though. The puppy is adorable! ^^

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Heh, I love the twist here A Bobby McFerrin record cover lying beside the player paired with the dog's expression would really have given it a trying-to-cheer-up mood

You handled the medium really well, no doubt.

I'm thinking that maybe you carried the back of the puppy's leg up too high where it's heading up to the top knee; it makes it look like it doesn't really have haunches... Also the angles of the legs in the reflection don't quite match the angles of the puppy's...

Still, very nice and a very witty twist on the inspiring pieces

The dog's fur looks kind of too smooth rather than like fur, but that's really clutching for something to critise. It's very cute. Looking at it maybe the foot closest to us is a bit off... but that might be just me. I really like it

Omg I so suck at critcism but here goes:

The dog is like way off-porportion. The feet are like... really big in porportion to the head, but I understand that's like harder to do when you're painting.

Omg the record player looks rad

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That shiny reflective floor is nifty. I like shiny things, I can't help myself.

The only big things I can nitpick about here have to do with perspective and anatomy, basically. On the record player, the side of the... horn... thingy (I knew what it was called at one point, I'm sure) that's closest to the viewer seems the tiniest bit bent, or flat. Not being a tremendously good painter myself, I couldn't tell you how to fix that - I just thought I'd point it out. Also, the record itself seems a little misshapen, a bit square around the edges. The hind leg of the dog seems a little wonky as well - something about the foot keeps catching my eye and seeming strange.

However. I absolutely adore the puppy's face. So sad and hopeful. I really admire your skills as a painter, overall.

When dogs are still puppies they are really unproportionate, kind of like when a human is going through puberty and is still growing into their skin. That's kinda what it's like. So I don't think that puppy's proportion is off. ^_^;;
However, the fact that puppy is really smooth bothers me. But that is nit-picking. ^_^;;
This is really an excellent pic. I love all the little details that you placed in it. Like the stitches where puppy has been spayed??? Meaning it's a girl puppy??? Here I am off on a tangent.
The reflection of puppy on the wood is especially well done. This is a wonderful pic! Keep up the awesome work.

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For criticism, (and you'll have to forgive me because I'm terrible at this sort of thing), perspective and lighting seems off. I don't know if it was your intention or not to have the dog sitting before it, but it does not appear that he is. The dog appears to be sitting further back than the phonograph. This seems to be caused by the head and his upturned foot, as he seems almost completely lined up with it if I cover them up with my hand. I believe this could be caused by inconsistent shading on the cone collar thing around his neck (name for that is escaping me at the moment -- sorry). The light source is directly above the two objects, but because of the collar not being shaded enough on the underside and the inside, it appears very flat. The collar being light on the underside has the appearance of that he is tilting his head to the side so that the light is hitting that side, although the body does not suggest this at all. His torso also lacks enough shadow. The phonograph has very dramatic shadows on the underside, but the dog does not, so they aren't fitting together or seeming lined up. Also, the brass horn thingy (haha, sorry, my vocab is sucking today) seems a bit flat at the top. It is right beneath the light, but it doesn't have any lighting upon it, so it seems to be completely vertical when it actually curves back a bit and should have some highlights. Then the record itself seems a bit pointy in the back. I think it's the extra bit of light you have cast upon it (looks almost more like the paint was slightly smudged?).

Finally, the shadow the dog is casting onto the floor looks almost green? I think it would look best with browns and reds, perhaps with a bit of blue mixed in. What colours are you using for your shadows? Black is too unnatural in a realistic painting, as real shadows are actually blue, purple, or such, but never actually red. It looks much better to use those colours than black. If it's green though, it just doesn't seem to match at all. It's important to unify colours in a painting and because you don't have that colour anywhere else in the painting that I can see, it really stands out and the image loses harmony. Mixing and using colours all throughout the painting is important, and actually much easier to do with oils. It seems that the shadow is the only area with colours that do not harmonize, as the dog, phonograph, and background/floor all seem to be using the same reds and browns, and in fact, it even looks like the highlights on the record are the same colours that you used to do some shadows on the dog? Very good.

All of that aside, I love this. The painting on the dog is wonderful; the fur has such a soft, velvet appearance. Then you have the floor which is absolutely AMAZING. The colours are so rich and you captured the wood grain perfectly. I love the gentle expression on the dog's face and the muzzle is perfect. You really seemed to hit every texture in this perfectly, as the brass looks like brass, the wood looks like wood, the snozzberries taste like snozzberries ("what's a snozzberry?"). And this is only your second painting for the class? Have you had experience with oils before this?? Whew, I'm envious.

Think you'll ever sell some of your oil paintings once you start doing more? I'd love to buy one. Your style is just.. wow. I love the variety in your work and the attention to detail. I'm glad to see that not everyone is all about shiny shit hastily done in paintshop for comments.

Hope that this comment was constructive and made sense.

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And shit, I didn't notice that. It IS a girl that's been spayed, huh? Didn't see that until I read the other comments.
Seriously, your detail owns.

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I really like the way the record player and dog resemble each other, and also how the dog's face is elongated. My only tiff with this painting is the way his left foot seems squashed...
Great picture nonethess.

dammit. three comments. sorry > i made a mistake
"as real shadows are actually blue, purple, or such, but never actually red"
I meant never actually black. Hahaha, sorry. I'll shut up now. @__@;

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- whitetail