Great picture. Just wanted to let you know that the background is not pure black on my screen, which I'm sure it is intended to be. Very slightly though.
good eye for detail ..the woodsplinters make it more real ..the composition more interesting by place the piece of wood it a bit square
alltogether..a skilled rendition on this topic
(i even can imagine this image wears a kind of GF-brand..curious if im right)
Mr. Funk, Your work is usually very intriguing and obviously very stylized. Not that I'm any one to concern yourself with but I generally really like it or I really don't. In this case it feels too static or staged for the action presented, unlike your "Sore Loser" where you conveyed action in stopped motion to perfection. Perhaps spreading the fragments out a bit more or adding some more angle to the broken off piece would jazz things up. I'll shut up now as you get your 6+, which seems to easily elude me. Apparently I have way too much time on my hands tonight...the little sliver to the right seems hard to avoid. If you aren't who I thought and this is a real karate chop, I apologize, and I'll quietly go back to watching late night infomercials instead of making stupid comments.