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Son of Neptune

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I've been practicing anatomy for the past months so this M&A thing was totally up my alley. Inspirited by roman/greek art but no reference used at all.

Edit: made the thumbnail size bigger and fixed the background.

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Glad to see I'm not the only one doing a male nude for the M&A.
You're mostly pretty perfect, anatomy wise, but there are a few problems. I'm gonna be super nitpicky with you, since you've got everything else down.
One of the key problems is that while you've done such a great job on the muscles and bones, you haven't really consider the fatty deposits in the skin much- the muscles have so much definition that the figure seems skinless.

The pectorals are a bit more like horizontal bands than they should be- you chosen to illustrate the upper striations but not the lower ones, leaving viewers with the impression that there's an additional set of muscles above the pectorals. In any case, I've never seen a living man or a photo of a man's chest where the striations are visible- the flesh should cover them up.

Next problem is the muscles on either side of the rectus abdominis muscles (six-pack). There should be two sets- the external obliques and the serratus anteriors. Your figure's side musles have either divided into several shorter muscles or you've attempted to show the ribs under the muscles- in any case it looks like there are many more sets (horizontally) than there should be.

Other problems- the ball of the tibia should a hair more to the right and a little bit bigger and rounder on the viewer's left leg. I love that you included the indentation near the upper trochanter of the femur, but in this pose I don't think it would be quite so accented.

The proportions seem pretty excellent. Might help to add some orange highlight to the rest of the piece, to make his fiery corona more believable.

Flowers10 responds:

I didn't learn the names of all the muscles and stuff and google doesnt allways work when im searching your terms, but the things i did understand are very valid, Thanks!

i rarely review "nude" artworks BUT just made my day xD
espacily at the moment the photo was loading i was like "oh this is gonna be heavy! this is gonna be heavy D:" until the load came to his tail and i was like "OMGWTFBBQ XDDD" i havent laughed that much since a video in YT xDD
btw your coloring style is pretty wacked yo :) very impressive
the body anatomy is also amazing :)

nice work ^^

Neat.

I feel the red explosion thing really constrasts the blue in this pic.

I have a major problem with the colour of his wang. I think it should be bluer...

I can't believe I just said that.

Also, I think the composition might be more powerful if the guy's arm was fully stretched out, rather than a somewhat limp Star Wars Emperor "No match for the dark side" lightning shooting pointy gesture.

Still, absolutely LOVE that shade of blue in the background, deep deep blue. Excellent.

Love the colour choice here and the sunburst behind the head looks great.
I feel that his right nipple should be a little further to his right.
And the feet could be a tad bigger.

Flowers10 responds:

It's commenly know that men with small feet have tiny dicks.
Thanks for the critique!

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