This is really good. I almost feel as though I'm in this cave and the creature is coming toward me.

Wow!

he should be more 'stoney', its okay though i forgive. great art.

I knew this was you, Elly. It is nice to have a style that one knows it the min. they see it. Lovely, beautiful and doesn't lack anything as always. It really is beautiful in color.

I love it! *.*

gorge

Beautiful portrait,and this guy could easily become the next James Bond in the movie role. WOW. ha ha. (do young guys still wear their hair long now? )

C'mon, any female online would be tempted to give this guy her phone no. and email. --or some guys would want it, too. It's just human nature to have someone get lovesick over a lovely portrait on the net. People used to go to dances,and singles' stupid gettogethers, and the first people to be picked up, would be the good looking ones. Face it, he's going to get the girls throwing themselves at him!

But I do not approve of the way young girls chase guys so desperately these days,instead of manipulating the guys so they chase THEM. I[ve never seen women who throw themselves at guys,and chase them,ever really succeed at getting them. that's because men like to think it's THEY who are doing the chasing and the choosing.

there's a commercial on tv for insurance i think...guy says:

'How's it going KARL?' he really emphasizes the KARL, not sure why. maybe its CARL.

yeah, I like all the energy,and vitality. It's not overworked, or "static."

Very cool drawing !

pretty rad, two dif styles almost, could be a collab

very nice

Great piece of work you pulled out there :D

nice use of that tool, gives it movement. fun fun.

A bit of shanghai's style too..

enchanting..

oh my.

Xods new style...

wow that's really good... weird... but good!

painful but not unpleasant ;) nice art.

I don't believe you haven't..

I see a bird and a couple other things

of course it is, Mr. Ball.

I've been meaning to comment on this since I saw it some time after you first posted it, didn't do it just then and since have been too lazy to go looking for it when I was here, which isn't often anymore. Just now as it came up in the Showcase thumbnail strip I realized if I didn't do it now, I might never. You know I've always hated you because I'm so jealous of your talent, and loved you because you're so very real, which is rare. (and because you always inspired me to strive to do better)
This, I believe, is one of your best paintings, because as a self-portrait I see in that expression the Staci I think I've come to know and love/hate here. ;) Along with being absolutely perfect realism, you've done the impossible "capture the expression" thing... something that almost NEVER happens in a portrait. There's depth in those eyes, something fascinating behind them. Some people see that in the Mona Lisa and say that's why it's so upheld. (One major difference there is that I think she's ugly and you're beautiful, so... ONEUP on that one for sure... hah)

I've looked at this a lot of times and been blown away every time. I just now realized what I like about it most, the way you slightly exaggerated the things a camera does when the shot is a little overexposed and the flash is causing it. How the light shows the details in the skin in a way normal vision would never pick up on. And the corona of color around the iris. And the way the hues of the skin tones are uniformly off. It's a great painting of a 'bad' photograph. That and the killer cupid's bow mouth.

yes! you totally get it. this is a HORRIBLE picture, horrible. Bags, blotchy skin and all. if I had a zit that day I would have drawn it in as well. thanks!