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Re: before, our breath held us.
In that week of heat and quiet before the riots started, your girlfriend and I stalked the cigarette-strewn streets and plotted demise: yours, everything we might never know. She was ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: My Lame Inking-more added 10/22/07
The hair looks very cool and the starkness of the white and black work with his pose. If you wanted things to be more round/break up the big chunks of ...
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: drawing/painting portfolio
Thanks!! collage, self portrait. Not finished because I am not finished.
Oct 19, 2007 -
Re: painting, please critique
Very nice! The play of the highlights and the texture of the horns is wonderful. It looks like there's some blue in there in the fur and along with the ...
Oct 19, 2007 -
Re: Ways to display poetry
Depending on what you want for the size/orientation of this, you could make a string of the poems - they could be on anything, paper or plastic or cloth - ...
Sep 24, 2007 -
Re: A Dying Diction
Adverbs definitely go, as Fand said. I think one of the main problems with this - the description hanging and not seeming to go much of anywhere - is the ...
Sep 23, 2007 -
Re: My Fool's Paradise
I agree with Col, in both respects: this is enjoyable to read and a nice change from the usual monotony of what comes out of these English assignments. And I ...
Sep 23, 2007 -
Re: Beginning and over description.
The over description: it happens. Either you can think before writing about using adjectives as sparingly as possible, or just let yourself write and then attacking it in the editting ...
Sep 15, 2007 -
Re: Describing your Characters
I like describing characters through what they think about themselves vs. what other people think about them. It doesn't matter to me much what they look like; if there are ...
Sep 14, 2007 -
Re: drawing/painting portfolio
This is all stuff from the end of last year/the summer. I'm doing AP Portfolio this year, so after a few weeks or a month there will probably be quite ...
Sep 12, 2007 -
Re: Sponson's Year of AP Independent Art
cool stuff. I love the colors in the portrait - they're almost radioactive. What did you do that in? pastel?
Sep 12, 2007 -
Re: Portraits, one work-in-progress. *edited*
I like these a lot. Hair can be tricky because it's hard to delineate; it's just something that takes some practice. if you can be sketchy with hair - rather ...
Sep 12, 2007 -
Re: Diction: Right Word, Right Time
Yes! Thank you for mentioning thesaurus disease, because it is a temptation that a lot of [newer] writers will fall into when they're told that they need to make things ...
Sep 12, 2007 -
Re: Rugburns
I like the sound of this and how it moves forward, but I was thrown by "learning how to hide life", because that begs elaboration. It's a strange phrase that ...
Sep 12, 2007 -
Re: goodnight.
I'm still not sure how to change this around; I need to change the first line [I've had other crits on that as well, it's the first thing to be ...
Sep 12, 2007
