is that a corgi? :3
also i love the colour palette.

Cool ouo except for the smoke >3> Welcome back.

Love this style :) and i always like this sort of lighting, a dark pic with a warm light.

my images are disappearing as well, what is happening

oh, no, i can't see it eityher!!!(I'm going to check all my 2011 images now)

dot and Pawillie.. click the link I posted.. it was a problem when Marcello was clearing space the last half of 2o11 was lost

welcome back

cool stuff. :} Wait a minute, are those bluefers in that pot?

I'm not sure..they could be

come back

stunning!

I wish I was as good as you.
Keep up the great work.

this is a pic of Roy, isnt it?

~_^

LOVE this..you really captured his spirit in this already!

I'm sure he doesn't need your internet love, and yet, Ouch.

Do you really think I initiated the animosity here, Shults? Have yourself a little read.

http://2draw.net/view/121107/

I think Dan has one of the most vile personalities I've ever come across on the Internet...and I've been around a looooong time. He's driven people away from here in hordes with his vitriolic spewing. I just usually never say anything to him because he always comes back with sarcasm or insults. I'd often like to compliment his work because I usually admire it but it's just not worth the experience of inviting an attack. Lately, I've decided I just don't give a fuck. He can be as mean as he likes. I'm not bothered.

I think he's been rather well behaved of late, it's a bit harsh to judge him on his past exploits. Personally I think he's turned over a new leaf.

Seoul? That's sweet. I really want to go to an other culture, too.

come back

Wish you had time for us. Maybe one day!

You got talent :)

the fabric is so fabrikee!! I keep coming back to this. So well drawn and perfect colors.

i remember being impressed with this a year ago. only a year ago? seems longer.

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.

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!