Character Draw-over Crit ...

Above is an example of a draw-over critique that I occasionally do for students who send me work for feedback. The drawing on the left was done by a student, who sent it to me for some input. The drawing on the right is my response (along with some rambling notes). While the comments are specific to this design, I see the same issues occurring in much of the work sent to me so I think (er ... hope) this will be relevant for many. In my drawing I was concentrating primarily on clarifying and separating shapes and creating more form, expression, and personality through specificity, variation of line weight, etc.

Thanks to Christine for her permission to share, and kudos on the fun little old lady design!