I believe we have different inking styles, Phantasm. I fail to see how I could "add detail to his jacket and face" anywhere without making the entire picture too dark. Most lineart in comics will leave non-black areas fairly stark in terms of shading, so the colorists can fill in the gaps with only a minimal amount of interference. Coloring around someone's shadows and crosshatching is a pain, and the less extraneous black to muck up the picture, the better. Unless you're going for a really dark, ambient picture, that is.
Furthermore, the shirt looking more intricate is probably a trick of the eye. I actually put less effort into shading the shirt than I did to add some shading to the jacket and face. The only reason his shirt appears more detailed than everything else is because it's black with white highlights. In lineart, anything that's black with white highlights is bound to appear more refined than other areas, namely because: 1) on a white sheet of paper, a big patch of black will draw the eye more easily, and 2) crosshatching to black provides a more even and subtle shade than crosshatching on plain white. I suppose it's possible that I could add more details to the face and jacket, but I've made the mistake of overshading on pics such as this before, because, as you said, it looks "very vaguely rendered", whatever that means, and by adding that extra shading, it threw off everything else. I don't intend to make the same mistake again. If that means the jacket and face looking rather spartan in comparison to the shirt, so be it.
But you're right about the head. It
is kinda shrimpy lookin'. Gotta work on that. Thanks for the critiques.
Edit: Wow, that came out *****y. That's the last time I write a reply after staying up thirty hours.
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