It doesn't look much like her in the face, and i think i know what's throwing it off.Her top lip should be thinner than her bottom lip, it's coming along nicely though.

Very nice pic.....she just seems to be a little "heavy" though ....to be into "burlesque".....but she is very pretty, and I love her red hair. If she were a bit thinner....she would probably be the queen of burlesque!!! "lol"!! Awesome draw though.....:)

love how pretty her hair looks! great work.

this is great on so many levels..the textures are awesome! Great title and song...here's an attempt I made a long time ago... http://2draw.net/view/44413/

Pretty sweet thus far. You've already captured a lot of her hotness, especially in the body. Thanks! :D

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. Miss DJ, I thank you for showing me your take on the Randy Newman song. I had a second thought for my title after I read FC's weightist comment, so I changed it to reflect my musings.

Beautiful draw! Thin is not in!:)) A gal with meat is hard to beat!

"Awwwww".....I'm sorry if my comment made you decide to change the title of this pic.....I think the pic is awesome, and she's a very pretty lady with gorgeous red hair......I only thought that if she was going to be in "burlesque".... that she should be thinner.....but who knows.....I'm probably wrong....there are probably a lot of heavy women in burlesque nowadays....I dunno.....the only movie that I ever saw that had to do with burlesque was a long time ago, I saw this movie on tv.....it was called "Gypsy", and Natalie Wood starred in it.....it was a really very interesting movie....it was the actual story of the life of the real "Gypsy Rose Lee". Natalie Wood was an awesome actress. This draw reminded me of the movie....:)

*jaw dropping awe*

great work

No worries, FC. There are far more people with prejudices against large people than not. I am never surprised when otherwise genteel folk are willing to express those prejudices with a charming and disingenuous lack of a PC consideration than they might be if the subject was black or Asian, any nationality, really, or retarded or otherwise 'challenged'...possessing whatever characteristic is no longer considered fair game for bashing. It's still perfectly alright to denigrate large people. Please be kind enough to excuse me now while I go and take my tongue out of my cheek.

On a related tangent: Saw a really good movie last night with Timothy Spall (great Brit character actor) playing 'The Fattest Man in Britain'...based on a true story.

That was a really good drama, I think timothy spall is great actor, and playing 46 stone georgie showed him at his best. There was a drama called the street here late last year showing six seperate people from the same street over six episodes , and timothy was the main character in one of the episodes. I think you would really enjoy it if you can find somewhere to download it, all of the episodes were great.

Yeah, I've got all the episodes of The Street. I love that series. It's where I first saw Tim Spall I think. I even love the theme music...that piano. Tried to find out who wrote the music but no luck.
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Street_%28The%29.html

Do you still not know who wrote it? I thought you was on about the song they used for the trailer "bon ivor-flume" but thats got no piano in it.

"lol" teapot......I think you totally misunderstood what I was saying......I am definitely not prejudiced against anyone.....especially overweight people. I was overweight at one time too. Most of my family has weight problems....most everyone I know would like to lose some weight....but I seem to be the only one who can't gain any weight.....I am so skinny I look like a skeleton.....I wouldn't mind looking like the woman in the pic that you drew. So.....seriously.....I don't go around "bashing" anyone.....overweight or not. I just stated my opinion of this pic because it reminded me of the movie called "Gypsy".....and Natalie Wood was playing the part of the burlesque queen named Gypsy Rose Lee, and she was very slim. I never saw that movie you mentioned called "The fattest man in Britain".....but there is a similar movie that I saw once called "What's eating Gilbert Grape".....Johnny Depp starred in this movie and Leonardo de Caprio played his mentally challenged brother.....their mother was a woman who was hugely obese.....it was a very sad but interesting story....if you've never seen the movie.....I would recommend seeing it.

I love 'What's eating Gilbert Grape'. Haven't seen it in years, so I think I'll go watch that now, thanks Firecracker.

you're welcome.....I'd like to see it again myself.......I think maybe I will.....

The role that Leonardo de Caprio played in Gilbert Grape is still the best acting he's done, in my opinion. Makes me sad. He was pretty good in Shutter Island but he was brilliant in Gilbert Grape. I have a hard time with him as an adult actor because he has such a baby face. Oh no! I've just realized I'm prejudiced against people with baby faces.

you have a way with female flesh;this redhead is hot(of course,all we redheads are hot)I'm glad you like women with meat on their bones,I have trouble shedding any of mine.

Thanks, everyone for your comments. Candehfeind, great R.D Lang quote in your profile! Flubbles, I never saw the trailer for The Street so wasn't familiar with Flume. Nice song, though. No, still haven't found out who wrote the theme...the one that's played during the opening credits.

His names Adrian Johnston, he did the music for the film kinky boots. He's a pretty well known composer.

I'll look him up. Thanks.

this is just amazing, too.

amazing indeed...go on suntan comment again;)

hey, thanks, itchy! :)...so as I was saying, yeah, the feathers, like I said on Bess, so real..must have been tedious to do those. I keep coming back to look at your work, and I see more things to admire about them. Also mentioned the back wall. I don't remember chibi having texture, so that is a very nice touch. Amazing work.

damn. I've been trying to remember how I did that background texture! I think it had to do with using the space and scatter control sliders and a hard, square brush with the smudge tool. Maybe. *rolls eyes* The feathers were pretty easy and fast. It's the skin that takes me for friggin' EVER.

How cool is THAT??? Thanks for the heads up, Klox.

Commenting again...hope to see more fantastic art. :)