why are you getting so mad about this? i didn't say your pic was bad, personally i liked it, especially the shading on Smexy.

and don't criticize your work? the heck are you talking about?! im a judge in a contest, it is my JOB to criticize. thats what you enter contests for, to get your work judged. and hell, as an artist its your job to listen, otherwise you'll never get better!
you know how much of a gift it can be to have someone honestly criticize your work? its the difference between awesome and okay artists.

what, you think i think my own stuff is great? hell no! i hate my work most of the time! im critical, i can see when things are going wrong or right.

and sometimes sketches are better than the real thing. they often have a more fluid quality that is difficult to achieve in digital media. and i had to have a variety.
you think it would be fair if i let myself be biased towards digital art? and why, Because its colored? because it doesn't have to go through a scanner so the lines are sharper?

im not trying to be mean or rude, but how the hell am i supposed to explain to you that there were issues surrounding the contest that preventing me from being able to keep track of every person who did or did not enter the contest? you don't give a shit about my problems? well isn't that nice, because i care about yours. you, and the two hundred other people who have spontaneously appeared in my life demanding my time and energy.
its not complaining, its not excuses, its perspective. i despise people who make snap decisions without consideration of the issues and situations surrounding it.

but you know what? fine. you want to know why i thought your work was sloppy? Ok, i'll explain it to you

-their tongue's don't flow, instead flattening out prematurely like you confused his tongue with his jaw line, which also makes it seem like his front teeth on his lower jaw are missing.
-there's almost no variation of your line weight, which often detracts from the overall shadeing, such as in this case
- smexys mouth and teeth don't curve with his face, which makes it seem oddly flat.
-on the demon you messed up on his arm where it connects to his body, which left it looking like it had a large chunk of fat hanging from it. an arm which then leads into a forearm that has almost no muscle definition, instead looking like a cone, which leads to a small hand lacking in a wrist bone, and too sharp of a point on the opposite side of the wrist which should be a smooth transition.
- the demons eyes do not match. on one side you had a clear eyelid, that did not properly differentiate itself from its eye, so it looks like its a part of the eyeball in your pic, and on the other eye, even tough they are the same shape, this one completely lacks an eyelid, instead coming completely out of his forehead
-the demon lacks collar bones, making his pectoral muscles misshapen, not to mention your missing a few muscles that connect the head to the shoulders.
- and as for his messed up abbs, well, i could let that slide as a difference in demon physiology. but by human standards it looks like his ribcage is missing about a third of its ribs.

that is most of what is wrong with your pic. does that make it bad? no. overall i think you were actually one of the better ones at portraying Smexy as many don't properly show him as having a muscular build, or making out with another man for that matter. to be honest he kind of needs more of that.

does that mean you should replace smexy with another character? no. honestly why would you even consider that? your portayal of Smexy was one of the best parts of the pic. nice clean shading and god muscle structure in his arm.

does that mean i think you should never draw smexy again? or that you should avoid it just to spite me? no. personally one of my favorite things about smexy is that he's perfect for anatomy studys. you don't have to worry about faces, skin tones, hair, or whatever. just muscle structure and basic shading. he's pretty much all anatomy. most of the reason i drew him in the first place was to practice drawing muscles, and in all honesty, that's really all you need right now, your pretty good in the other areas. you just have to learn which muscles attach where, the range of movement in the joints, and the ratios between body parts.
and i may be wrong here, but you seem to be drawing people from the outside in, not inside out, which can make it hard to get the muscles right especially.

just like what im trying to work through right now. although i have a feeling you aren't obsessing over it as much as i am. ive been reading pretty much every how to draw comics book i can get my hands on recently so i'm starting to get pretty sensitive to the subject.
by the way, i love your jack napier drawings. i am such a fan of the joker, and you rally captured his expressions.

soooooo.... u still mad at me?