Well, I guess the thing about me is that I'm so awesome all the time, ya know?

I sympathize.

I love this, a little like my place, big trees ect.

Cool, very electric.

so wonderful Roytje! Have fun in Thailand!

Beautiful :) Have fun :)

despite that the subject is a nude-beast, of sorts, it is a remarkable painting and shows your ability albeit accomplished in 9 hours

Tell Bob it's time to draw, don't you think? Merry Christmas.

He's resting on his laurels. And as far as they go, they're fine ones. Personally, though, I hope he starts finding those laurels kind of itchy and uncomfortable soon.

smeary-ness.

when I was 12 I did my first paintings, with oils (yikes). I watched some tutorials and the first was a lovely mountain landscape with happy little trees and a stream. i was quite proud until my neighbors daughter got into my room while it was still drying and smeared her dirty 2 year old fingers all over it. i really want to do that to this painting! not to mess it up like that devil-baby but because you achieve such a viscous quality with pixels so well i want to touch.

Immense.

mmm beautiful. i still can't use my tools correctly, i notice, in comparison.

Your Petertehenglishblokewithplums is great, Fubbles!

I just noticed I spelt "the" wrong in the title.

Enormous, A masterpiece

beautiful work.

One of the best.

nice to see this out again, yes. yes. :)

Fuck, I knew I should have low balled him starting at $20.

I like Staci's idea, something more like Daily Deviations would be cool. The whole 'like and dislike button system' seems like it would be counterproductive because it allows people to judge anonymously and without explanation, making the showcase purely a popularity contest (opposed to a place to display the sites more skillful or innovative or interesting digital art). And yes, judging things like this would be subjective but could be relatively objective if there was some loose criteria to be met that we all agreed on (I mean, don't most prominent and respected award systems work in such a way?).

Thinking about it now I think there are pretty solid reasons a lot of pieces were showcases like this one. There was a collective evolution of skill as 2draw developed from when I joined in 2004. There seemed to be a point where the bar was raised weekly for a few years and then we got to now where it has kind of gone stagnant. We are left to look at the current content as a whole and maybe a lot doesn't fit, but when it was showcased it was amazing, inspiring, or whatever at the time it as created.

Did they try to take you to rehab, and you said "no, no, no" ?

@peter- I was thinking of her when I wrote my comment too. :)

@roy- This is great by the way, and I loved your bronze-face piece too.

beautiful expressive