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His anatomy looks pretty solid to me, but there are some aspects that leave me a little puzzled.
- His nose seems a little odd to me. Perhaps it is because the left and right edges of the nostrils seem to stick out, rather than curve inward as in most noses.
- I like his smile - as I mentioned earlier, together with the scars, it does a great job showing what kind of character Zip is. However, I even tried to make this face myself (looking in the mirror) and just couldn't do it. My wife couldn't do it, either. I would suggest considering either bringing out the facial muscles a bit more, or moving his eyebrow a bit. Whenever I tried to make the half-smile, my eye naturally closed a bit, hence shifting the eyebrow. It could just be me (and my wife). Two people don't make a all-inclusive test - but perhaps try to make this exact smile yourself and see what comes of it. Normally I wouldn't elaborate this much on one little detail - but given that the smile is so crucial to the character your depicting, I'd say it's worth the study.
- Finally, the shark bite. I looked at your reference and I think you did a pretty good job matching the structure and features of the scar. The only thing that strikes me as peculiar is the placement of the bite. Was he bitten with his arm down in that position? If you look at the reference, the scar marks the position the arm was in when the bite occurred - and the reference seems a little more believable than the position Zip's is in. I would think that if he fell in the water, his arm wouldn't have been in that resting position. It -could- be possible he was bitten with his arm in that position, even if he fell in the water. I don't think it is wrong, just odd. Again, I don't want to come across as too nit-picky - but that scar is part of the story - and obviously a part of Zip's persona.
Anyway, those points aside, I feel this is a pretty solid piece of story-telling and an all-around good drawing.
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