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My partner this week for this critique was my sister Maria Iacono. During the week she really focused on colors and line weight. She stated that she struggled the most with varying her line weight within the character design. With that in mind,  I was able to help her out by suggesting to make certain lines thicker for example the lines in the hair could use some work. I also stated that she could make some lines thinner for example, the feather on the hat and the clothes. For her color palette on her character design she kept with the primary colors with a variety of different shades from those three colors. She stated that she wanted to keep the classic look of Pinocchio and she didn’t want to change the colors too drastically. I thought this was a good idea because Pinocchio is such an iconic character, especially the Disney version, which she is referencing, and it was good that she didn’t change too much because then it might not have been so recognizable. Overall I think my sister did well and had some things to fix that weren’t major but not minor either.

My partner for the weekly critique was my sister Angela. I was looking over her work and noticed some things about her character design and concepts. For her character design I think she needs to work on variety and really focusing on fabric draping. She said that it was difficult to find references for a poncho and really struggled to make sense of the way the fabric would fall/drape. With that being said, I think she still did really good in her final character design. She did good referring to boots and the hair has a really nice flow to it. For her concepts I thought concept one was good but I think Robin needs to look more like she’s about to attack for example, have her bow and arrow pointed at the horse drawn carriage. For concept one it will be better if she makes those changes. I also enjoyed the bird drawings of Robin’s friend little John.