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11X17 in pencil

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:iconvancross:
I love She Hulk in this one as her personality is perfectly captured and above all she just looks incredibly hot!

The problem I see with it however is that you kind of drew yourself into a box here and some of the lines only are helping to flatten out the piece. The people in the background look like an after thought and although Howard in the lower right for the most part seems to match; its hard to tell exactly where he is suppose to be in the pic. If you notice his hat is alined with DDs coat behind him and his head is up against the briefcase. Finally his right arm is behind SheHulk's calf but it looks like she is behind him. Is howard being pushed out of the elevator? If so there could be some better indicators like a shadow on the outside of the door or something. Of course I like to think he is a bit excited because he has the best seat in the house lol.

You are not only cutting your characters off in awkward places at their sides but you are also cutting them off at the ankles. This slicing and dicing is making it really hard to judge the depth of the piece.

Finally I could say that the walls of the elevator in the background could use some texture but I am assuming that you may be planning to put this in with color?

Its really hard not to brick up a piece with a composition like this so I don't know how to help you here aside from the choice of another angle. But I love this angle so much and mostly because SheHulk is looking so incredible in it.
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Outstanding composition! The theme of rectangles aligned with the picture border really drives the mood of uptightness. The value pattern framing the dark suit and case with the dark elevator door drives that impact.

As usual, your facial expressions are second to none. Her pose is also very telling of the uneasiness she has with the situation, whatever it is.

I am not a She-Hulk reader, but I feel like this piece tells a very interesting story by itself.

I'm not sure what Howard the Duck is doing with She-Hulk, but he fits in nicely in the corner of the composition.

Well done!
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:iconrobokop:
Haha awesome work! Yay for the green lady! :dance: :D
I do hope this will see colors! :D
:iconsagaxus:
I think my expression was the same as the ducks' when I scrolled down to see the rest of the image. I wasn't quite expecting that :lol:

I really like your smooth pencil shading.
:iconfroggykisaki:
Beautiful shading, digging the expressions too. They're subtle but nice.

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:iconsamarai:
Howard or Donald..?
Or just your average working duck?

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She's terse; I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.
:iconjairoxd:
Howard the Duck??? WTF??
:icontercado:
is that Captain Viagra?

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I'm a nut, but not just a nut...
:iconmikemayhew:
His name is Captain Ultra. He was briefly in The Defenders in the 70s.

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:iconssaruman:
Great toned shading on that piece. Great to see all the different expressions as well. Good Job!
:iconcocopup:
I adore the expression on the left. Amaaazing. :iconrapefaceplz:

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