Mean clown

Too bad the image is so small, so we miss out on some details here, I think.

This clown looks like the only thing he would enjoy is, if all kids suddendly would vanish and he didn't have to bother with those little brats anymore.
If I was a kid and I would look at this clown it would get nightmares.

Maybe you could try to create a more happy looking face paint for this clown while keeping his facial expression intact. That way it would create a great dispute: On the one hand the clown looks like a normal clown with a nice face painting that is meant to make kids laugh, but on the other hand his facial expression would indicate that he's a dangerous person who hates nothing more than being laughed at.

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Why so menacing?

What is the story with Clowns that look like they are ready to rip someone's face off as soon as look at them? This one seems like he's thinking "If that custard pie comes anywhere near my face or trousers, I'm gonna cut you."

Perhaps the face paint could be changed slightly - the moon shape doesn't look very symmetrical and with the way that the rest of the face does, it feels like it should be.

Give the guy some ears and a little hair, like sideburns or something similar. As regards the hat, you need to make it look more 3D, as opposed to a triangle that sits atop his head.

Finally, the postcard size of the piece makes it a little difficult to get around, so I'd suggest that you make it slightly bigger for us all to enjoy.

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Clowns

-Clowns are pretty cool in my opinion. Well the ones who don't have a side job as a creepy stalker or pedophile. They are just guys trying to get by in this world by submitting themselves to do hilarious antics and make cool little balloon animals for us.

-Using red, white, and blue for the color scheme is quite common as far as clown make-up and apparel goes. It looks a little odd having the paint around his mouth being blue though. I'm fine with the overalls being blue and all but the face just seems too colorful for a scary kind of clown. The hat seems very flat and needs better shading to give it a better cone shapeHis scruffy looking apparel must be pretty old and a sign of much wear and tear over the years. A bigger body sized picture would be better at elaborating this though.

-The eyes are very oddly shaped and are very different in size. It also doesn't help that the black coming down from the eyes isn't defined enough. It just looks like unsightly blobs coming down from his eyes the way they are. For some reason he is also missing his ears. Unless he had a horrible accident I don't see any reason to leave them out of the character design. He's getting up in his years(many wrinkles) and the spite he has towards children must have risen to very high levels making his facial expression have much more meaning. It's one of the best things going for Cleen the Clown.

-As mentioned before the picture just seems very small and doesn't allow for much detail in the character. It also doesn't allow for any sort of scenery in the background for Cleen the Clown. Maybe he's just inside of a circus tent of some sort. It's blurry at that too. I would of liked this to of had some cool props for him to play around with or someone that he is scowling at. As it is now it just looks very plain.

-Thus i'm left with a longing to figure out all of the stuff that you left out of this picture. As is it's just the beginning and a teaser of sorts. You really need to elaborate on the character for it to be better though.

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~ Title ~

Hmm, Cleen the Clown? It's a very odd name. Is this a word that you had made up, a word that is more native to your country and/or language, or just a word that you spelled wrong and meant to put Clean? I don't think Clean the clown would be a good name, but Cleen... hmmm, very interesting indeed. It just helps give that weird feeling that clowns tend to give to people, which I personally enjoy exploiting as much as possible when I discover someone is scared of clowns. Oh well, I've talked about the title of the piece for long enough, but I must say it was a very interesting name indeed.

~ Background ~

The background was very plain on first sight. It's kind of boring and doesn't really do much for the picture. At second sight though you can see this sort of illusion. The dark color on top and the lighter red throughout the rest of the background give it the imaginary line that makes it look like a box. This illusion can than start playing tricks on one eyes as they are trying to figure out whether the dark section of this is the top of the box and the point where the colors clash is the corner close by or if the dark color is the inside of the top and the clown is in this box. A good illusion indeed and it really goes along with the clown theme very well. :)

~ Focus ~

A perfect clown would be symmetrical in a way, but at the same time not symmetrical. I think that you have that part down quite well. What I didn't like about the clown himself was the shape of his head. Not only was it too odd (even too odd for the picture), but I don't think it really helped with the creepiness that the picture is suppose to give off. A slightly shorter head or at least a much rounder head would have been better in my opinion.

Hat: Now working from the top of the clown and down I would like to comment on a few things. The hat was just too perfect. I imagine a scary clowns hat to be ruffled up a bit, to be dirty, maybe have some stains on it, but not to be perfectly straight and in order. The red dots really add to the theme of red that you used in this work.

Head: The top left hand corner of his head looks very odd. It's sticking out a little and it seems that he has some sort of small tumor. His right eye is also very oddly shaped and should look more like the left eye. Other than that you've kind of got the facial expressions perfect. You worked the area between the eyes very well and the wrinkles around the other areas of his face really look good.

Body: I wish the picture was a bit bigger so you could see some more of the body, but I'll review what you have on the picture so far. The grey lines were too thick in my opinion and I feel they should be a little bit thinner. The black line on the left side that goes through his collar is the only one that you use in his collar. I feel that you should have never put in the one line or used the lines to cover all of his collar to look the same. Again, nice placement of the red dots here.

~ Meaning ~

A scary clown. I guess it's suppose to show how creepy a clown can really be. I see where you are going with this, but it really didn't get the job completely done in my opinion. If there was more going on and especially if it was sinister things than it may have done it for me.

~ Overall ~

The color red was used very well and I enjoyed the white, grey, black, and blues that you used as well. The lines on his face were really good, but some of the lines in his hat and body were way too thick.

The background could be boring at first unless someone really checks out the illusion for what it is and allows it to play tricks on their eyes. I do wish that the picture would have been bigger and there would have been more going on though. That was the biggest downfall of the picture.

Good: Good face expressions and lines in the face. Nice background illusion and colors. Nice name for the clown.

Improve on: Some of the lines were too thick so make them thinner.
The head was very odd shaped. It needs to be more round. Make it bigger and add more content.

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