thanx everyone ,good to hear from all of you .I am workin on the colors still and trying to get more comfortable with the pencil and brushes .Thanx again,Nellyvette

its castanets!

yes castanets!! They called it castañuelas in Spain the spanish word .Good !! see ya Nellyvette

Like I said..I was havin fun..and my mind wasnt workin right at the moment that i did that

Wow...so, what was wrong with your mind right at that moment when you did that? I was just wondering how serious it was because at the same time your mind wasn't working right you somehow managed to muster up enough wits about you to operate the mouse enought to click the submit button. That's just....wow...you must be so strong and brave.

....??was that sarcasm..??? oh well...i was tired and my mind was on the loose...-holds the damn leash to brain-

That's cool ! Very nice lineart ! ^^

nice to see you Bmyaa, I like this piece. Excellent use of color.

You look so great! Very nice drawing! I like how the face is bend a little towards down and the eyes look up. Nice facial hair! >:D
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hah! all the different poses... *falls over from laughing so hard* he is so cool! like his bow and monocole, too. but maybe a bg? you could put $ signs or somethin' ;)
nice
*gets carried away in stretcher from laughing so hard*

lol maybe Two of em.. a boy and a girl Pen and Gwynne? lol

Woah. I thought that was Waldo for a moment... (y'know, from "Where's Waldo?") Interesting idea though!

*looks at picture for a loooooooong time*

I like it. I think it looks like a cobra whose head has been deforemd by some alien growth.
Or it's just abstract. Either way, it's cool.

or a mutant elephantthing interesting piccy..

Haha, it looks very great, a strange alien appendage. It also reminds me of tentacle rape monsters, those are popular in hentai, japanese sexual comics. >:)
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It's me, hence the title "Self Portrait". The reference pic wasn't working so try this one www.geocities.com/sickminded_child/evil.jpg

Also, thanks for the extra space, although I was content with it being in the beginners board, since it took very lil space. Now that I have all this space, I might be tempted to change and add a few things.

Cheers!

Can I get a duh duh...damn dood!

you have an amazing grasp of realism.

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Beautiful

still beautiful

You have pie? *drools*

This is just begging to be finished. Looks pretty shweet sho far.

Thanks yall. :)

Oooh, more pictures of the home of my heart! You have a real gift for rendering this kind of scene, Cindy! :) There are two points that I have to question, though, for future reference (again, not that I could do this myself, but I can tell that these two points don't look quite right -- my eye being better at this than my hands, as yet, at least).

First, the ripples in the dry wash of the path seem to me to be too consistently angled, instead of following the curves of the path, the way I'd expect them to, if they were caused by water running over the mud during flood time (which is what I think of when I see that kind of image). They'd make more sense if there were a way for the water to have acted on the land outside of the path, the same way, but with the wall there, I'd expect the water to be restricted to the path more, and curve to follow it, during flash floods.

Second, the tufts of greenery on the bush don't seem to have a correlary set of darker areas, within the shadow of the bush, so it looks to me like the shadow is of a bush that doesn't have as much foliage on it as this one does.

These are both fairly minor points though, which I offer only in order to point out directions in which you can continue to work on advancing your work, which is already spectacular, and VERY evocative of the landscapes you've been painting. <smile> As you may be able to tell, what I've seen so far has been enough to spur me to go back through the pictures in your user board, in order to see more of these pieces! <grin> But even great artists can still grow, and I hope I've offered some useful suggestions for your consideration, here. :)

sure, always, I appreciate all the helpful suggestions. (Actually, it doesn't rain often where this was taken from and it's very windy, so I assume the ripples were caused by the wind since the sand changes rapidly - although the rain does a number on this wash when it does happen)