Gretsch

[Marko]

yup I totally see what iggy is saying, good catch.
I like the size of the colour version and the fact that the expression is more visible at this size - I think this size in bw would work well.

[susan]

Hey, Susan, not sure if it's the thing you were talking about, but the first one to me makes it look like his left hand is just floating there. Especially since his hand doesn't wrap around the neck of the guitar. It just looks like the whole hand was just added in.

I totally agree with that. I missed it too. Still not what bothers me, but I am glad you mentioned it.
Tiger. Thanks so much for the kindness!
Marko - glad you agree this works in B/W :-)
I do really like the orange color of the Gretsch tho but want to sacrifice that for the power of B/W

[theantiquetiger]

The only other thing I see in the image that might bother you is the distortion in the reflection of the guitar body. I see where you did some cloning with the distortion. I really like the distortion and your cloning of the wood grain behind it. If that is what you are talking about, I wouldn't change a thing.

***edit - I went back and studied it some more and realize it is not cloned. It does appear you had to burn it quite a bit from original to get the wood grain to come out. Like I said, if this is what is bothers you, don't let it. It looks very natural and perfect ***