OOOh, OOOH, I know, I know! Let me guess!! This is a girl, and she is sitting in the sun, and she is squinting. And you have painted her in watercolors! Right? Right? (Bet yours is better than the book's)
Oh, damn. I hate to be wrong. :( Very funny, now my answer looks stupid but I'm not changing it. I'd probably argue with you if I could see it and say that yours is better, (and I still bet it is) if for no other reason than for the sake of arguing.
Thanks Cloxboy. I usually experiment with using the complimentary color of whatever I'm going to paint on top of and then painting with the dodge or burn tool to make it look sort of layered.
You know, that kid's Mom should probably get her some of those cheap kid sunglasses at WalMart or something, because all of that squinting isn't good for her skin, and too much exposure of the eyes to ultraviolet rays can cause cataracts and stuff like that. Where is her mother, anyway?
or maybe she should just get her ass inside, do something productive,like watch some tv and eat cheetos like the other 60% overweight americans! HEEEEECK YAH.
Blah blah blah..I spent 80% of my summers as a child running around outside all day in nothing but a pair of cut off jeans. I say screw seat belts, air bags, sun screen, PETA, tree huggers etc etc etc....Burn the rain forrest! Club the baby seals! Drive big huge cars that belch black smoke and get shitty gas mileage! Let your lawn turn to dirt! Paint your house black! Screw it all, let's just get this shit overwith!!
AMEN! Can I get a witness? Halllllllelujah! Send your money to Axil! How did any of us survive since our Mom's never knew where we were until after dark (because they just didn't care, really) we could cut one of our limbs off, and they would just throw some of that Merthiolate monkey blood shit on it, and I used to always ride on that back-dashboard thing and every time my Dad hit the brakes I'd go flying against the back of the front seat and land on my little brothers.
edit: I disabled the air bag in my truck with the key, and I got a $150 ticket from the highway patrol (my little brother's co-workers, no doubt) because I refuse to wear my seatbelt. It's against my Constitutional rights and infringes on my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness... I'm happy without my seatbelt. Now shall I delete all of this off of your beautiful sunny little girl picture?
I think John Muir said it best in the "How to keep your volkswagen alive forever" book when he said "The semantics of driving safety become more confusing every day as safety equipment gets more complicated. If safety equipment like seat belts, rubber baby bumpers and folding stearing wheels had lowered the accident rate, I'd be for it but I feel that it has increased accidents. If your car is properly maintained, with good brakes and steering, clean windshield, lights and wipers that work and all that, then your safety is a direct function of what you are-what you are being as you whistle down the road. If we all constantly drive as if we were strapped to the front of the car like Aztec sacrifices so we'd be the first thing hit, there would be a helluva lot less accidents."
And perhaps there are some of us that just don't buy into the idea of "safety"... I don't believe it exists. Like life insurance...it's not life insurance. It's death insurance. So there.
I have no time to consider safety equipment... (lights cigarette)... I have to figure out how I reached adulthood without that bike helmet..God..its a mystery........... Another very nice Axil picture..
My parents decided that.. in the dead of winter.. our pool needed to be patched up, still half full of water. Soooo they got me and my brother and sister and my sister's boyfriend to go in and do the job. My mom decided that maybe we should put our legs in trash bags and tie them for "insullation" from the cold water.. so we did. Soon as my feet hit the water the bags sucked so tight around my legs you could see the outline of the shoe strings though the black bag with the flashlight my parents used for lighting.. the pain of the cold water shot through my legs like a million needles.. and then we had to bend down and try to patch up all the holes through the water. It seemed my parents just couldn't find enough of them, there were millions. Finally they let us get out of the pool.. so we slushed over to the edge of the pool and we tried to lift our legs up.. but there was so much freezing water in the bags around our legs, we couldn't even feel them, let alone lifting them 4 foot off the ground. My parents were in tears at the sight of us trying to get out of that pool... I don't think I've ever seen them laugh so hard.
When I told this story to my friend I used to work with.. she laughed literally for days.. but not nearly as hard as when she asked where the child protective services were when I was kid and I told her it just happened a few years ago...
I told my mom recently what my friend had said.. she nearly wrecked the car cause she couldn't see through the tears from laughing so hard.
Aubrey, that sounds like a day in the training of a Navy Seal. No kidding... hilarious. Hey, Axil... I can't imagine what you could possibly do to make this little girl any cuter or sunnier, but aren't you going to finish it?!? (except maybe did she dye her hair with Koolaid? lol)
I'd like to vote you president of 2draw. I almost fell over laughing when I went from version 4 to version 5. I'm anxiously waiting for version 7. I just noticed that all of these sentences start with I. I, I, I, there, I did it again. I should be praising your talents but this rambling seems all about me. I apologize.
I just want you to take all this junk off of here and put her back to v.3, because I seriously love this picture and I have to click on 3 to see her. <: (
I like this picture a lot. It seems very amircan. Nearly Eric Fischl-ish.
I wish i could paint llike this. Nothing should be changed about this picture at all.
i`ll say it agian...Very nice!
By the way...i believe in safety belts ....lol We can at least try to protect our kids
go well
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edit: I disabled the air bag in my truck with the key, and I got a $150 ticket from the highway patrol (my little brother's co-workers, no doubt) because I refuse to wear my seatbelt. It's against my Constitutional rights and infringes on my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness... I'm happy without my seatbelt. Now shall I delete all of this off of your beautiful sunny little girl picture?
No, leave it up.
I think John Muir said it best in the "How to keep your volkswagen alive forever" book when he said "The semantics of driving safety become more confusing every day as safety equipment gets more complicated. If safety equipment like seat belts, rubber baby bumpers and folding stearing wheels had lowered the accident rate, I'd be for it but I feel that it has increased accidents. If your car is properly maintained, with good brakes and steering, clean windshield, lights and wipers that work and all that, then your safety is a direct function of what you are-what you are being as you whistle down the road. If we all constantly drive as if we were strapped to the front of the car like Aztec sacrifices so we'd be the first thing hit, there would be a helluva lot less accidents."
When I told this story to my friend I used to work with.. she laughed literally for days.. but not nearly as hard as when she asked where the child protective services were when I was kid and I told her it just happened a few years ago...
I told my mom recently what my friend had said.. she nearly wrecked the car cause she couldn't see through the tears from laughing so hard.
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I wish i could paint llike this. Nothing should be changed about this picture at all.
i`ll say it agian...Very nice!
By the way...i believe in safety belts ....lol We can at least try to protect our kids
go well
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