wooowwww.....so nice.......

absolutely gorgeous!! How did you get such silky skin with photoshop!!

wow, great!

wow

nice 1 + 10

I love the effects you've done for the background. The colors are beautiful. The face seems too wide... too square or something. Nice overall work!

Very nicely rendered!

i like it cause its good

That face is sublime.

this is my favourite for the day!The skin is just stunning!

geez ! the original sketch must be as stunning as this. Beautiful lines.

Yes, the face is somewhat distorted. Pay attention to the shape of the cheekbone and the orbit, and the "squashed" eye. Also, her expression is more like what you'd see on a porn photo than to the real thing, in my humble opinion, but to each his own. Good texture, though.

The texture on the skin is BRILLIANT!
The expression on her face is a bit...special...tired, druged up...whatever

Keep up that excellent work

lovely.! Though upon a closer look, I can't say I like the texture brush you used for the sparklies. They seem a bit too flat and hard edged to go with the painterly look of the rest of the piece. +6

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 RaZuZ wrote on 12/12 @399
The texture on the skin is BRILLIANT!

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Lovely, indeed

well done klimtian image

face is verrrry well done

Your name is so nice to remember (from epilogue). I love your RPG artwork. You're so good at depicting a character/race.

no comensts +7

incredible detail in her facial skin- esp love the freckles- its so hard to do proper freckles and still have them look rel and not like some random blobs of color on the skin.

Beautiful work

Thanks to everyone for the feedback--and the warm reception! I especially appreciate the constructive crit--I may get a chance to corrects some of the problems; we'll see.

No comments on the subject/title. Anyone familiar with the myth?

--sb

For anyone interested in the texturing of the skin, I've linked a detail. Nothing real tricky, just sketchy brushwork and layers of transparent color over the base drawing. Also linked is the original drawing. I had nothing else to go on, so a few light/pose/anatomy problems were bound to creep in. All-in-all, I'm happy with my first stab at digital 'art.'

--sb

Talent? Yes, you have much of it! Unreal stuff, definatly beautiful.

The Myth is beautiful in itself, and it makes me cry to see that.
The illusion of the leaves and the background and the theme of the borders all matches the subject.
She's a beauty that I can actually read about, and perhaps, be able to see the differences and the reasons behind that "porno" look in her eyes. Whatever a porno look is, I'm sure it is a VERY delightful thing that I would use daily if so.

fabulose skin....+9

I have a tendency to be flip about my work. Maybe a more earnest intro is (over)due.

Danae was fated to bear a son who would kill her father, the king of Argos. To prevent this, the king hid his daughter in a suterranean prison. But gods are not so easily deterred--Zeus visted Danae as a golden shower. Nine months later, Danae bore a son--the hero, Perseus.

My interpretation replaces the romance with ambiguity. This plays out in the woman's expression, but in other ways as well. The background is a veiled landscape (river to the left, clouds rising from hills to the right). And the decorative 'borders' bracket--or bind--the scene.

There's more, but that will do for now.

--sb

I think her expression is the only thing that keeps this from being just Another Naked Chick picture. So many people give their chicks blank expressions. There must be a dozen Blank-faced Females linked to here daily. Yours has personality. She's a real person. She's awesome. She's beautiful. She's getting it on with golden mist. I can imagine Barry White playing in the background, but in Greek.

Her hand's a bit mannish, and the fingers kinda like sausages. Knuckles aren't straight across like that, the middle knuckle's the highest. Hand's really the only thing that bugs me. More attention to the tendons of the neck would be nice - I can see where you started to play with the main one that stretches from the ear to the notch at the base of the throat but mostly it looks like a smear. Women have beautiful necks and the constant play of tissue, tendon, and muscle there is best exploited. It's never really a smooth tube like that.

Highlights in her face are beautiful. The skin tone is lovely. Again, I adore her expression. She's getting laid by golden mist. I am slain.

wow that is awesome. A great render for a dark red head. I see fairy wings and sky not river and hills though. +10!

This is a very awesome work, I love it. The coloring and expression are really good done.

Your style is really impressive. And the close ups are worthy. You give Photoshop multiple uses. I love the colors and the mood. The only thing I see, and maybe it's just me, I think the shoulder is little high. But everything else is gorgeous.

Ahhhh absolutely magnificent *_*!!!! +9 for certain~ I love it....

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 arenhaus wrote on 12/12@379nYes, the face is somewhat distorted. Pay attention to the shape of the cheekbone and the orbit, and the "squashed" eye. Also, her expression is more like what you'd see on a porn photo than to the real thing, in my humble opinion, but to each his own. Good texture, though.n

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I'd have to disagree, the face structure is perfect and the expression is not pornographic in any way. I think this is your best work and you deserve the high score. +8

like the feel of this one

Really really nice.

lovely expression, you done a great job on the skin tone