Thanks Deino :)

I love her eye! Great drawing.

Thanks Roytje :)

Thanks... you're all too sweet :)

I was kinda experimenting with halftones in this one, I've never really used them before... it's good to know something works.

Nice work. The colors in dark skin seem so nice for portraits to me.

Skin rocks.

Really cool work, with good use of line weights. It looks so clean. I also like the background choice and how faint some things are.

I hate you in the jealous way. D:
I loves how it's all lines and its simpleness.

I like lines too... the gradation in the background is a nice touch. You have a good grasp on perspective. I struggle with it sometimes (in my real work -stuff not on here) I dig it. I also like how you have little details in a lighter shade.

but what does it all mean!?

He's playing the Spanish version of "Deal or No Deal" Staci

I really like this one , theres always great use of colour in your pieces.

I think you can be a believer of both, and I am. Being Roman Catholic myself I learned about His creation and evolution, and it's funny it seemed easy for me to blend the two, meld it if you will. I believe He exists and created the Earth and everything around us, but I also believe in the Big Bang and evolution... hmmmm maybe that makes me a bit by-polar. That would explain things.

You can have Creation and Evolution, I believe it. Maybe someone just needs to find the middle where both fits.

Awesome piece Opium, love that hair. He does look tired.....

Excellent portrait! Very impressed with it.

Thanks Marcello, patience, sweetcell, and gerbear! :)

Put me in the fan column, too Deino. The first impression was of one of those grotesque deep-see dwellers. Really really good.

Fantastic fish/face. Nice description, too.

That's awesome. I would love to be able to create creatures like this.

I like them both, too. This latest one sort of looks like a combination of Anthony Hopkins, and Charles Laughton.

Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton.... on a stick!!!
...I'm sorry.

I like this thing you do where you add colour/value with little short lines. Looks cool, very different from other stuff seen here.

Thanks everyone, but yes, I was really wondering what was up with the comments. Did everyone else realize this is a head impaled on a stick with blood coming out of the eyes and the eye on the right being pushed out of the eye socket? I think it's really ugly and nasty: a terrible thing to look at. I was in a terrible mood when I doodled this, and it was really frustrating to me that I couldn't delete that original version which wasn't even marked as finished. Now I wish once again that I could delete, as this is a thing of nightmares.

The short little strokes and scribbles are really just me being lazy. I want to not be so painterly and blend things in, but I had a hard time doing this in lascaux. In painter, I tend to paint this scribbly way at first, but then I use the blend tools to quickly smudge them into these nice smooth regions of color. I can't really do that so easily in lascaux. :(

awwwww that's pretty ^_^ great job on it =3 i like the tree mostest =D

Wow! O_O
Okay, this is on the wrong board.
This is Intermidiate/Advanced quality.

Yeah, that tree is the first that actually looks like a tree and not a blob of green on a lump of brown

And thank you too Sanzo. Usually though I don't use the intermediate board unless I use the extra space. Which may never happen since the beginner board got more pixels to play with.

You better finish it >:D

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Very nice, but perhaps it could benefit from just a few hard edges like davincipoppalag suggested? When all the edges are uniformly blurry and obscure, it sort of draws the eyes away from the picture since nothing's in focus, and so there's nothing to really draw the eye into the canvas. It's like there's no foreground subject in the picture. It could just be a few selective places like the upper edges of the eye lid or the corners of the mouth or the cast shadow of the nose: just something to pop things out a bit and pull the eyes inward. The thumbnail doesn't suffer from that so much since, at the scale, it looks like there are actual hard edges in the picture, but up close it looks more obscure than the thumbnail which is generally the reverse of what one might expect. Perhaps if the pictures are meant to be obscure up close, it could be done with some sort of texture or some painterly brush strokes. That makes it so there are new things to discover up close where the overall picture sort of dissolves into this interesting array of shapes and patterns and textures, but a digital blur/soft effect on an entire picture can destroy the clarity of it. Anyway, I hope you don't mind our suggestion: I wouldn't bother if I didn't already like the picture.