AHH!!! SO COOL!!! *huggles The Erin-chan* You need to try your hand at drawing a bit more stuff of this vibe! This is excellent! Heh heh, this kind of stuff is very oriented toward my style of subject matter. As anyone knows, I gravitate towards the psychological, original and solid yet somehow slightly off-putting style in my drawings. Meaning, this kind of thing is just up my alley, so I rather enjoy seeing you try your masterful hand at it. =D Honestly, I don�t think this is �more creepy� than your usual style. More abstract, definitely, but that in itself doesn�t make it �creepy�, �sick� or anything carrying such a negative connotation. By the way, you said this was for a project in Art Class. Tell me, what was that project/assignment? I�m curios as to what parameters produced this work. Anyway, on to the drawing! ^_^ As you could probably guess, I�m loving the straight-jacket. I love how you rendered it; particularly the wrinkles (wrinkles are so darn hard to draw!). I also like how you didn�t render it to be a perfectly accurate straight-jacket; well, at least not a perfectly accurate modern straight-jacket. This jacket looks more like it�s from before the 19th century; back when they were still beating, caging and shocking the perpetrators of outbursts at the mental clinic. Dark days, those were. Dark days indeed�... Anyway, now that I�m done with my history lesson, back to the piece. I love the way you rendered the belts. The inorganic shapes plus their varied size & placement has me positively in awe. You didn�t overdue the detail on them, and the asymmetry of their distribution helps add balance to this piece. Excellent, EXCELLENT work, Erin-chan. b^_^ As far as design, I love the choice of blue hair for this character. Had I been sitting there with you, I would have voted against blue hair. But the hue does a great job of balancing the colors in this piece, and the general thickness of his hair helps balance the special aspect of this piece. I also love how you made his one visible eye all blood-shot. It adds an excellent air to this pic, and it shows nice attention to detail. ~_^ The bandaging over the mouth looks extremely nice, too (and it�s also a fine alternative to a leather-strap or a ball-gag. o_o ). On the more philosophical side of this piece, I�m honestly not detecting a �crazy� vibe here. The straight-jacket appears to be more psychological or emotional to me; possibly symbolizing something�. Whatever the reason, the vibe I�m picking up is saying he doesn�t belong in a straight-jacket. I�m wondering, did somebody put him there? Someone he now has a grudge against? Or maybe he put himself in the straight-jacket, both the action and the item being metaphorical in nature�. Am I getting to deep for you? ^_^� Sorry, but it�s rare that I find a piece that�s so emotionally thought-provoking. Seriously, I�m not trying to BS you with flattery; I honestly feel some deep-running themes within this piece. That shows the truest of talent, Erin-chan. b^_^ Anyway, excellent work on this piece as well, Erin-chan. I hope to see more artwork of this depth and nature produced by you soon. You�ve honestly left me quite impressed. b^_^d

I love the dementedness! I really like the hair style and how you shaded the hair. And then there's that one eye peering out of the bangs -- nice, creepy touch.

I get that a lot, too. "Oh, Steph, draw this! You gotta draw this!!" I feel for ya. It's a cool pic, though.

I like this one, I don't care if its "demented"! It would've probably looked even more demented if the bg was black. I love how you did the hair in this one, too. The details in the clothes are really good too. ^^ Awesome job, as always. ^^ -Rosa

Yep, your friends are demented, but that's not bad. XD I like the psycho-ness of it all. Keep it up. Stay (sic). ~a7s____~ A.K.A. Dementer