a evil icarus ;)

whoa....this took a dramatic turn! Great job! Great great idea

oh whoa! i never knew you made something like this, it looks like my dragain character, very cool even though i feel like a copy cat now. yours is better anyway :)

thank you Doop, fleeting, poppa and miss DJ :) and I will poppa! *puts a cindy-no-see force field around it*

and fleeting, aren't they gorgeous? After you've had the Gypsy horse experience, there's little else you want! well, as far as horses go

That is a unique horse =) great piece!

damn this is nice!

finished with finesse! pretty,pretty

This is so awesome, I had to bring it to the forefront once more! I love ALL your work. Fascinating! ;o)

This is very nice!

Its all working again!

Secret service agent

wow!!! nice!

stands out nicely, sharp and crisp.
well done opium.

thank you Renuar :)

awsome lol they are so cute! what are the chewing on lol?

It's amazing how quickly you captured all the right details. I dream of developing such skills.

i was half expecting to see a van, to say the truth

LMFAO!!! "My name is Matt Foley and I am a motivational speaker, I am 35 years old, thrice divorced and I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!"

I'm glad you did another one of these. This has great movement and the wave is really good!

yee haw! ride that wave surf cowboy! great movement and the water is super!

Thanks for the nice comments :)

awww that's great... so cute ^_^

Very, very perty! I love cardinals...one of my favorite birds. Lol at cindy's comment.

i love cardinals, this is very pretty

Oh ok, well that's fine then. :)

"I like how the right side looks like she has a man back with a big dent in it! Like her man back side was in a big bar fight one night because this one guy took all the pretzels and one thing lead to another and ole' half man back thought she should get up and do something about it but then the other guy had a friend who usually doesn't come to that bar, no he usually goes to the 4 U lounge, but he went there this time and when ole' half man back stood up he knew he had to have his buddy's back... his buddy was a man so his whole back was a man back, not like this lady's back, but anyway, so he saw ole' half man back get up to do something about something an he slammed her upper right shoulder area with an extra 4 inch lead pipe he happened to be carrying around, not his good one that he had in his coat pocket for something else, but his extra one. So that's what I like about this picture when I look at it."

I'd just like to ask Zack one last question here. Is this what you call, 'formal criticism'? Of course, you could be referring to criticism given to terracotta by people besides Axil. But I'm pretty sure terracotta's posts were in response to Axil. Although, I haven't had 50 yrs of experience myself, I've never heard of giving criticism in 'tell-a-funny-story' form in any of my classes. And I can assure you, if that were the case, I wouldn't waste my money or time on such an unprofessional school.

No. What I was agreeing with Axil about was the issue of sexual abuse re: his cartoon. His critique was informal and absurd. I do not consider the issue of the picture being finished relevant to an analysis of the motivation behind any critique, formal or informal, since critiques on finished pictures are just as legitimate as critiques on works-in-progress.

The absurdity of Axil's comment speaks for itself, and to imply that he was being meanspirited for pointing out flaws in a finished picture demonstrates to me a lack of understanding of the nature of artistic critique in a learning environment. That is to say, Axil may have been meanspirited in his comment (I can't tell), but that has nothing to do with the fact that he was criticizing a finished picture.

Another fantastic work.

thank you ladies :)