This is meant constructively, rather than as sniping at the work.
First, everything is in great focus, which isn't how either eyes or cameras work, the use of some depth of field effect to have the background slightly out of focus will bring more attention to the central figures of the piece.
Second, with the way the lighting is distributed in the image, I feel like my attention is once again being drawn away from the subject figures and toward the characters upstairs. The lighting also seems to get dimmer the further right you look at the image. Also about the lighting, the candles are giving very white light, rather than more toward the yellow that most candles do, which actually seems to take potential warmth from the feel of the scene. The reflections in their eyes lead one to believe that there's fairly large or close windows in the direction that the guy's facing, with bright light beyond them. Those would give significant indirect lighting into the front and lower area of the tavern, which doesn't seem to be present.
Her skin seems to be strangely reflective, as if it were either plastic, or covered with a very evenly spread layer of either oil or sweat, and the way it falls off to deep shadow is contradictory to the strength of the highlights.
I think that should about cover the issues of the lighting and focus of the image.
With regard to the posing, the position of her on his shoulder indicates that there's clearly a degree of strength being exerted, however, his fingers don't appear to be indenting her skin at all, or reacting to how firm her behind is in yielding to her flesh either. Presuming that neither of them are made of either plastic or some type of stone, there should be a degree of reaction with the flesh of both of them, since both of them would be feeling pressure from his hands.
Overall, I think this work is actually nicely conceived, but that there's a lot of room for improvement. If I were an art teacher, grading on a percentage scale, I'd give it about 73%.
Brawls are rough and her arms are skinny. She's gonna hate this, but her best bet right now is to use him as a human shield. Which means getting his cooperation.
No matter what she decides to do, she's gonna hate herself in the morning.
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