Galena Ref

Egypt! My first time critiquing a piece inspired by said culture (directly at least. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/r/r…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Razz)" /> )
Here, the piece has an impressive shade and highlighting, the fur appeares in cold color tones but even so, that doesn't mar the fur (though the semi opaque white doesn't make sense to me, as it should just be a lighter version of the base color...right?)
The structure is decent and to the point, like a concept art piece should be as I've come to accept and agree...but the facial expression seems misproportioned-it's the eyes! THE EYES!! They and the length of the snout look strange to meeee!!! However, I'll state that I'm not used to drawing canine anatomy or furries outside of certain breeds of dogs, and even then their just masks, so perhaps I'm pushing my opinion where it shouldn't be focused.
My final nit pick is that the tail fur seems, uhr, gelled and spicky, not natural in that you'd never see a dog with that kind of hair work unless wet and/or gelled.
But I will give a pro to this piece, the background and outfit really do empower complimentary elements on the character(s), all while adding cultural life to it with clever additions of heiroglyphs and attire familiar to certain places within Egypt, hell, it's more inventive than what I'm used to drawing in regards to women...kimonos are nice, what's wrong with having a kimono? <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/m/m…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Mad)" />

All in all, a refreshing piece of work portraying an undernoticed culture within the DA community in regards to what I've seen. The artist has great structure and ideas to pull her through, and even though there are slight problems here and there, they're just that, slight. A job well done to you, my good friend! KUDOS!! <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/n/n…" width="35" height="31" alt="" title="#1" />