Up on melancholy hill

I haven't written a critique in a while so bear with me.

First off, let me say that I do enjoy this piece. There always needs to be more pictures of Cyborg; her design is one of my personal favorites and i always love to see really nice artwork of her. You did pretty all right with getting her intimidating, yet calm look down in this picture, and in nice, soft, almost painterly style as well. As a general character fan art piece, I'd say you did a well job.

But this is a critique, and if I'm taking the time to write it, there's going to be things that I want to say about it that I think could use some work.

This is titled after the song, of course, and you even posted the lyrics in the description. Therefore, I believe you might have been going for some sort of musical impact related to the song with this drawing, using Cyborg. That's fine, but when it comes to impact, I feel like you could have done a lot more. After all, this is a simple, head-to-waist shot with no real dramatic lighting / background / etc. If you were going for something more, I'm afraid you may not have achieved it.

Art-wise, let me say again this is a wonderful drawing of Cyborg. However, I do not like the background. The blending of the clouds was well done, but not necessarily enough. There's too much blue immediately around Cyborg, and it looks like you did everything on one layer. That's not a problem, but you don't always want it to be *that* obvious. I'd suggest blending the white clouds more behind her, instead of surrounding her with blue. That will give the sky a more blended, better distributed look with the clouds.

Additionally, what's that spike behind her? I'm guessing it's the shark submarine that they're on, but with this view, it's not that easy to tell. I can let it slide, but if I were you, I would have done a more full-body view of Cyborg, showing what exactly she's standing on. After all, for anyone who is not a Gorillaz fan, they wouldn't really be able to exactly know what she's standing on.

Let's talk about the shading on Cyborg. I feel that it's a bit too darkly colored for the setting she's in. it looks almost as if she's in a dimly lit room, while in reality, according to your background, she's in a light cloudy setting. In the music video, it was dark and dull, so I'd recommend you do the background that way. However, if you don't want to, then I'd fix the shading on her to be a more lighter color, as well as apply some lighting to her to make her a lot less dark compared to her setting.

Moving on, Cyborg herself was drawn very well, I say again. You got the anatomy down spot on, along with her awesome outfit, dull expression, etc. The only thing I have to say is, it looks like her right eye (the eye on our left) looks a little out of place. Too high on the face, maybe? I'd move it down a little so it matched up more with her left eye.

All in all, I say you did a pretty well job. The flaws I found may have been significant, but there weren't that many overall. I hope my critique helped you! Keep up the work, you seem a really decent artist and you're sure to keep on improving!