Thanks so much Starz for comments, your opinion always welcome!

I just saw one of these in my back yard......great job!

gerry....aren't they cool?!

you are so skilled at molding people faces. where do you get your ref pics from. i admire your painting so much jpjp. excellent draw.

great colors love the earthiness to this beautiful draw.

The colors are perfect and the monk is amazing jpjp!

beautiful work!

great again, Dan. The glasses are made of glass, the fabric of the coat is great, and the hat is very hat-ish. I don't know how you do it, but, i'm gonna keep on studyin..and oh yeah...the skin.....

Amazing work!

Hey QT! What an excellent peice of art! Very impressive!

Never started smoking, so quitting isn't an option I have to consider :D. Cool smoke-plume.

WTG QT for posting this draw....Good for you!!! I'm sure a huge subject many can relate to!
If you're just starting out smoking as a teen, yeah, it's easy to quit now but wait 10 yrs or more and it's near impossible! I'm convinced "someone" has added "something" more to cigerettes that make them more addicting....
STARZ, I think I've heard of the med's you're talking about. My Dr has told me about them as an option (I'm still thinking about it). I think they run about $3 a dose. The plus side to it is you don't have to quit cold turkey, you just gradually like smoking less and less. I feel "my time to quit" is getting close...ugh. You'd think after 3 bouts of Pneumonia and several Bronchial infections this past winter that I'd either be dead, or quitting by now!!!! It would be truly amazing if I ever do quit that's for sure! My problem is that I enjoy it SO much I don't want to quit!!! (That's the "addicting additive" speaking). When I think about quitting, I smoke more....
My fav part of your draw, QT is actually the cigerette. Not because I smoke them either....LOL. Great job on the highlighting, shadow, and reflected light along the back side. The "cherry" and smoke are well done too! **applauds, bows to QT, scurries off to smoke...**

lori.....this is pretty darn cool.....or should i say hot ! ? ! ! ? ! ! ? ! ! ? ! ! ? !

thanks ;) I was just messin around

god i can always pick your peices out.
this is so awesome

For some reason this sounds like a title of a song. I can hear an imperceptible tune with this title name.

Needles don't bother me. Fact (and I can see people cringing when reading this) I like watching as the tube fills up with blood. It's a morbid fascination to me. Must be part vampire, that explains my staying up so late and being so sensitive to the sun. 8}

haha, its not the needles that are so bothersome
i dont like the vein aspect...eeyeh.. i mean i can peirce anything without a thought but show me a vein and ill puke.

sweetcell, i think your so sensitive to the sun becuase you stay up so late.
you stay up so late becuase your addicted to the internet.

Hey guys - be thankful you're not on dialysis - I have to have huge needles three times a week . . .
great drawing - lost and lonely feel to it

this is wonderful. It is so stylish and the colors are great and what Xina said also!!

Super!!!!!

Absolutely adorable! I like the style in which you did this in too. Very nice!

Excellent job. I love all the different textures.

Hey Starz - the sheen on the gold satin is just TOO real! the fringing, the bell, the embroidery on the face - all amazing.

Terry......I can't believe I missed commenting on this. I have looked at it so many times and I guess I was so engrossed in all of the detailing I thought I had commented. I love the whole draw, but my favorite part about it is the one piece of cording that comes down from the bell. I can't quit staring at it. It looks like you could reach right out and take it from the picture, seeing the side of it and the perfect details you have put into it. Wow! Masterpiece is quite the understatement for this. Mardi gras memorabilia has always taken me aback, and this would be a perfect addtion to all that I already have.

aww, this picture is so calming. i figure drawing is a good way to ease your frustrations...

this is gorgeous as is! I love the light..it's a beautiful piece of art.

I love the way the dragonfly looks so crisp against the night . . .

peaceful and enticing. Unusual colours - but they look so natural here. I love the sheen you have on the water - looks like silk . . .

yes I am Sweet... and thank you all

so very very pretty. i miss the sunsets. when we lived on the lake our main focus of the lake view was facing directly west. we would get the most amazing sunsets. sometimes the moon would shine off of the lake so brightly and shine in our bedroom window and it would awake me in the middle of the night.