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[A BIG SUPRISE]

Not very surprising.

While I don't much care for the style (I think that generic anime/manga style is ridiculously outplayed - especially in anime and manga themselves) I can't find any glaring faults in terms of the line art and colouring, other than the fact that it seems like considering the way her legs are tied, you should be able to see part of her right foot in the picture (perhaps I'm imagining things), and the calf muscle shown seems to be shaped rather strangely.

Several things, though:

While I'm guessing the girl is supposed to be some sort of 'night elf' out of some bad Lord of the Rings rip off, the grey skin coupled with the yellow eyes just ends up making her look like a zombie - which really increases the ick factor in the picture.

Also, the picture as a whole does seem to carry some unfortunate implications. The girl doesn't seem to be particularly happy about the situation she's in, and is wrapped up in such a way that she could not have done it herself. Is she a gift from one person to another? Are these people treating her as some sort of commodity? Has she been sold into slavery and is now having to live out the rest of her life being passed around amongst friends, being used to fulfil their darkest desires?

Is this 'mini manga' (a term I find ridiculous considering you seem to be writing it outside of Japan) that you are writing about rape? Is this poor night elf girl zombie in such an unfortunate position as to be living the life of a sex slave?

Misogyny, rape imagery and general degradation of the female sex aside, yeah, I guess it's well drawn, if incredibly boring and played out in terms of execution.

You should work on developing your own unique styles, instead of borrowing from one so incredibly overused both in and out of the media that it originated in.

Kosuk responds:

hmm... well now this is a lot to read for me... ill try to respond well (im not that good in eng)
well
1) i want to say thank you for using ur time in writing this review!
2) yes u are right when its about the legg... my fault x D
3) haha no shes not a night elf... well its hard to explain now that ill have to tell about her story and all! but in an easy way ill say shes a dragon girl... as i said... its complicated haha
4) looks like a zombie? i never thought of it... well it actually makes it better now that shes a cursed character. when u mean ick u mean that u get a disgusting feeling at looking at this picture? haha well its all matter of taste i think : /
5) well ive maybe should have worked a little more with the mouth or should have submited a larger picture cause shes actually giving a little smile x D its more a confused face, but dont worrie... shes fine!
6) yes someone did wrap her and yes shes a gift for a person to another haha!
7) no idea what commodity means! slavery? nope
8) haha im sorry If im offending you somehow calling my comic to "manga" im just used to it! thats a thing u will have to deal with x D haha!
9) "Misogyny, rape imagery and general degradation of the female sex aside, yeah, I guess it's well drawn, if incredibly boring and played out in terms of execution." huh? u lost me here : o
10) i think i will develope my style in time... but i just have to learn from other peoples.

thanks again for taking ur time on writing this review! im happy with my style because i belive in the "Good is what is appreciated to see" and if u dont like what u see, its not good : D and thats ur opinion!

[--Daydream--]

Funny thing.

I wrote a story exactly like this once.

Only mine was a lot less optimistic.

[Eye Render]

Yeah, it's pretty good.

It is a drawing of this eye, right?

http://www.inkycircus.com/jargon/images/2007/04/25/eye.jpg

Theo-art responds:

Thanks for the comment, I appareciate it.

Giving me a link to a picture I referenced is just kind of a dick move, because I obviously know I used this. The fact you googled 'eye' just to find it kind of peeves me.

[Cat Stencil]

Oh wow.

The more I look at this thing, the more it creeps me out. It started out just looking like a cat, and now it appears to be something else.

It's like a face growing out of the side of something else. Like a parasite growing out of the back of the head of another. It's feeding off of this person, and will soon leave him an empty husk.

And it could not be happier about this.

TACOZ responds:

Hahah, thanks! All of it's true, it's a very disturbing creature and looks as if it could be some hybrid between a cat and maggot larvae.