Well I feel like you didn't push it far enough. The vector doesn't seem to sit very well with the rastorized layer. Maybe that's the point, but I can't interpret that from the imagery. If there's a message, it's not blunt enough for my little mind.

<---Like my avatar: SQUARE. BLUNT!

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I kinda agree, I've thought of it for quite a bit now.

And yet I feel anxiety like a "very high frequency vibrating" status, like having a wasp going mad inside your brains.
The same way I may say I feel dark colors as slow, wide waves and light colors as short, fast vibrations.

I could improve this drawing with heavier contrasts like I did in "Trembling Proud Heart", but that wouldnt reflect the original feeling anymore.

About the vector, well, you should look at this drawing as a 3 separate stages work: the (eye)ball, the sharp lines and the face. It wasnt anything before it was finished, the feeling came out gradually along with the colors and lines. The lines are meant to be just like out-of-place frames, giving the (not so) subtle impression that not everything in that face is as it should be, that there are "fractures from the inside".....I couldnt explain it better, sorry. =p

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No Gods but Yourself!! >.<

I think one of the best things you can do as an artist is to take a step back from time to time and focus on practising your skills without worrying too much about you're message or vision or the broader poetry of your work. just draw a hand, or an ear from reference, or a figure, and make it right. really observe it. or do some boring still life with bottles and fruit focusing on making it look as real and 3d as possible. then when you come back to your expressive abstractions you can bring to the work some of that stuff without even thinking about it. In the case of your image here I would suggest trying to make the face read more in the image. some kind of expression of pain that tells us he is fractured on the inside, something that brings the facial expression a little more into focus.
You could achieve that by doing a series of separate face studies of people with different expressions then when you do the final abstraction you have all that information at your fingertips and it will be expressed with more fluidity.

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[....] some kind of expression of pain that tells us he is fractured on the inside, something that brings the facial expression a little more into focus [....]

I totally failed =(

That fracture should be shown by the "unmatching content" of the various pieces. Notice how the forehead covers part of the eyebrow and fingers disappear when they reach beyond their delineated area. Also how the nose seems to be composed of two different noses as it crosses the line....

Anyway I'll take seriously your advice to try reproducing pics of body parts and still life.....

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No Gods but Yourself!! >.<

I wouldn't say you failed just because someone didn't read your image exactly how you wanted. People are different, they'll see things and interpret them in ways that make sense to them.

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I agree. Think of how many song writers try to write something that can be put into any number of contexts. As evidence, many song writers claim they don't know why one group of their songs is popular while others aren't. Its ultimately up to the audience to decide what's what. The artists opinion almost doesn't matter.

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No dont think that you failed. this is art man. everyone who looks at your painting will get something different from it. but I do think that you will be able to express yourself more clearly if you use reference.

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Wow. i did not get that. My perverted mind actually went in a different direction in interpretation, thinking it was a dirty picture.

I'm glad you explained it to me. Remember, some of us are kinda thick headed and require some explanation.

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