I certainly hope its on auto-pilot
hehe.

nice piece and composition. cool seat also

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You really challenged yourself on this one. Good. I would assume the focus would be the woman's face? Therefore, every element has to be directed towards her face - and I think a good attempt was made with the monitors, the chair, her posture. Items of interest on the right like the bad, mug and matches are what worries me. I don't know if they help the flow.

I think the biggest challenge for you now is getting the right contrast of colors. It's very difficult, I know, but having your painting awash with green isn't very pleasing.

Hmm... try looking at Jason Chan's art. Get some ideas there.
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I hope I'm not bothering you too much! keep up the good work!

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Hey... No problem on the fave! I would love to work on any ship where I can have coffee and cigarettes an the bridge with me!

Very cool! What kind of vehicle is she piloting?

While I was painting it, I came up with a bit of back-story in my head. She's piloting a commercial sub-lightspeed freighter, ferrying goods from big orbital depots in the outer reaches of her solar system, where the large faster-than-light ships drop off their cargo, back to the inner planets.
So she's kind of a sci-fi version of a truck driver. Hence the rather clunky look to the cockpit fittings.

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Sounds great!

An interesting thought.

Woman is posed very awkwardly. Could be that image is tilted for more dynamic composition. Coffee cup and level of liquid also confuses me. Combine these three and I am no long sure which way is 'up' in the painting.

I see many large, potentially very bright light sources in one direction and no strong shadows on woman. Seems as if that many bright screens would produce some sort of contrast. If you plan to light everything like a flash bulb, insert indications of light source (flourescent bulbs, perhaps?) although it seems that bright green screens would be much more interesting.

Keep up the good work. Hope to see more revisions.

Thanks for the detailed critique. "Up" is slanted about thirty degrees to the left, for compositional reasons (as you guessed); by tilting the vertical I could make the girl occupy a lot more of the overall space without cropping off her legs. Personally, I don't find the off-axis vertical confusing, but then I wouldn't, because it's my picture. I'd be intersted to know what other people think (anyone?). Regarding the pose in general, yes, it is a bit unnatural. I guess that's what I get for getting my reference photos off porn sites
Regarding the lighting, yes, I think you have a valid point. The lighting on the girl doesn't really seem to match that of her environment. As far as I remember, I think I kept the lighting pretty close to the reference photo, which had the primary light source somewhere off to the left, and a lot of diffuse light filling the shadows. Unfortunately, this doesn't particularly match with the lightingof the rest of the scene. I did toy, in a half-assed way, with the idea of making the pramary light source from the screens, but green uplighting would be horribly unflattering...
To be honest, I don't know if I'm going to revise this any further, but if I do, I defintely bear your and other's comments in mind.
Thanks again for the comment, always appreciated.

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