No, it certainly doesn't. But there's a reasoning for almost anything an artist does, you don't have to explain it every time. I'm confident you'll filter my critique and put the bits you need to good use, and discard others, I don't mind this. So in a way, it's not necessary to explain your reasoning on why you didn't do stuff in the same way I did on the edit. But at the same time, don't get too comfortable in your entrenched artistic view of how things should be done, because that's also a comfort zone. Your view is based around, and influenced by what you're capable of doing. Like I used to go "fuck colour. I never want to work with colour,. Black and white, bitch!" when I started out mainly because I was shit afraid of colours and everything I've tried up to that point was horrible with them. Be daring, try different things.
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and I wasn't necessarily pulling out all my knowledge
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Always try your best, no matter how good the end result is. I think that's important.
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That's a thought of retrospect when looking at your version though. Perhaps it's just a thought I need to develop more and convey better?
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It wasn't so much an issue of how the hand grasped the gun, it was more an issue of the fingers being too long, having too many joints and shit. I didn't edit it because I thought it should grab the gun better, I edited it because it should at least look somewhat realistic in grabbing it to start with. Although I'm pretty sure my hand wasn't very realistic, but it was a quick edit. And yeah, your intention in this case didn't come through a lot because it was hidden behind the 'omg those fingers look broken! a lot!' that i was thinking when I first saw it.
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The white background was intended because, as you said, it made the colors seem brighter (going on the colored version, which was just an afterthought in itself).
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When colouring b&w lineart, drop the brightness of the piece by like, 50 bits in photoshop so you have an even gray tone all over. Then paint directly on it. I can see what you're saying about the white, but even if you wanted this to look comic, then you should have gone with a jolly green and blue horizon landscape or something. Not pure white. Never pure white. There's no pure white in nature.