Username: cokkie_bear

Experience: almost 11 months

Themes: sad, angst

first impression: [ 8 / 10 ] when the first time i saw your poster, it looked very interesting and eye-catching. makes me curious. you arranged the characters in a unique arrangement. i don't give you full points because the tiffany's pic (is that tiffany? the biggest one on the top? i'm not sure. -bricked-) is way too bright. will tell you more about this on technique section.

themes: [ 15 / 15 ] yeah, full points for you. the colors you used are matched perfectly. black and pale light are the right colors for a sad graphic. the feels is there. the character's faces are fit well. goodjob, nothing to say♡

coloring: [ 17 / 20 ] the colors you used are pretty good, like i've mentioned before. however, there's one thing that annoyed my eyes. the pics are too bright. the tiffany's pic, exactly. look at her nose. tiff's nose is like disappeared. compare with taeyeon's pic under her, taeyeon has a nose line right? (is that even taeyeon?TT_TT what i meant is the girl on the left bottom. the small one. pardon my brain.) this problem is appeared because the coloring you used is having an over contrast/over light. will tell you more detail about how to fix this in technique section. 

technique: [ 18 / 25 ] first, i wanted to say that your technique in placing characters is amazing. you're successfully makes the viewer interested with the poster. however, i found 4 little problems. just a little, not visible if you're not seeing it focusly. look at this picture (if you can't see the picture clearly, just take a look at the bigger one above, and see the part i've circled):

let's start at the first circle. you used a cracked texture, i think it might be to showing the viewer how's the broken feelings, right? but somehow, in my eyes is not needed though. the presence of that texture makes the poster looks a bit odd. it is too small and too invisible, it just make the character's face being covered in not right position. if you wanted the cracked texture covering the chara's face, you should move it a bit more into the chara's face and give a lower opacity of it. and if you don't want the cracked texture covering the chara's face you should move it a bit much to the right and rotate the texture to the left a bit. also, make the texture a bit bigger. so it won't look so odd standing right there.

and now let's move to the second circle. it's another not-so-needed texture. why? because the presence is kind of too bright and covering whole of the chara's hair. whole of. you can not covered the whole of someone's head/hair. please leave a bit of her hair uncovered by the texture. how? you have two ways, erase a bit texture or just makes the texture opacity bit lower. maybe under 70%.

begin with third circle. the light behind the chara is clashing with the chara's face. after i'm thinking a while, it's actually not the light's fault. it caused of the chara's face is too bright. simple thing to do, go to the chara's layer, go to image-> adjustments -> exposure. then, move the 'offset' pointer to the left a bit. just a bit. and move the 'gamma correction' pointer to the right a bit much. and tada, the picture will having a nose line as well as face line, so it won't be clashing with the light, or at least showing the difference with face and texture.

the last circle, the hand is not cut well. it would be better if the chara's hand cut perfectly. but other than that 4 things, your technique is perfect. you only need to be more thorough at making graphics♡

resources: [ 8 / 10 ] good choices for the birdy textures at the top. and the slight red lights are beautifully applied. adding some more red lights and or sparks are highly recommended. and btw, take a note of the second circle i've told you before:D

typography: [ 11 / 15 ] the feelings is there. but it's a bit too plain. you don't need to change the font choices, you only need to arrange the words in more unique placement. you also can play with the font size. bigger, and the next word smaller. italicize or bold. change the color of the important word and something like that.

bonus: [ 4 / 5 ]

total points: 81/100 - adorable♡

tips for you: nothing really ; u ; your graphic is good already. you just need to practice more more and more and makes your graphic thoroughly for a more awesome graphic result. hope my review will help you to improve.

-xoxo foxlight-