Great concept, but the nostrils are sloppy and offset. The one on the left goes up into the cheek, and the one on the right is noticeably thinner and is placed too high compared to the one on the left.
They are also obviously painted on, appearing solid black, instead of trying to match the darker tones of the rest of the image.
Better, but now they are a bit too small and "slit like," and the addition of the weird cracked stone texture is very distracting - especially the heavy diagonal mark above the lip. It doesn't really look like a statue, nor like "Tom Riddle's sister," it looks like a facial mask treatment gone bad...
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Wow, very nice!!!
I think you could crop some of all the dead space from the top for a more dynamic image, but good effect, none the less!
Just a tad more light on that stovepipe hat will make up the difference in what looks like waaaaaaaaaay too much dead space on top.
Agree with Elemare. This could be a much more powerful image.
EDIT: Now it's overkill.
Thanks to all for your usefull advices
agree with the others
The lensflare is distracting. It became the focal point.
i like it...
I've followed your good advice MossyB, hope it's better now !
Better to have "dead space" at the top, rather than a "stab your eye" bright spot commanding you to focus on it...
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