This deserves the 95% vote i just gave you. Nice work! b

Hoooooly Shhhhhhhh

hahaha...thanks...not sure about a 95% but thanks for the compliment.

You are a truly talented person, I hope you realise that

Thankyou Toothpick! This site has inspired me to pick up my artwork again...after so many years...now I think of each week as a challenge...to try something new...but I have yet to cross over into the photoshop area...I have to study more on that!

Good Luck with it!

Beautiful and delicate shading. The values on this piece are simply superb. Extremely well done!

This is amazing. The detail and care taken with this and the knowledge and skill...Absolutely beautiful.

amazing work!

Lovely! Great work author!

Great skills

Super sense of art.........Fabulous Entry.......G/L Author.

Very nice , good shading and comp.

I take my hat off, Next life I would love draw like you do. Good luck!

Thankyou for the nice comments everyone.

Wow this is so amazing...fantastic details and great final product...well done author....gl

Absolutely wonderful.

Well done, tres artistique !

spectacular! beautifully done

Congrats looks like a lovely place to live

congrat mo4bobs, 1 and a two.- way to go.

Congrats, great entry

Beautiful, you are so talented.

Fantastic sketch

Wow, this is stunning, you're an awesome artist = )

Congratulations ... truly well deserved! Lovely drawing, you certainly have a talent with graphite work!!!

The lilies would not be so brightly illuminated in the night...
Also, the moon positioned dead center and behind them emphasizes the unrealistic lighting...I'd suggest eliminating it, and just titling this "Lilies..."

awesome.. my fav..

Thanks for your comments.
Mossy, unfortunately the original image had entirely different colours - more subtle and in earthly-like tones. The problem is that I created the image in CMYK mode instead of RGB, but I discovered it after I had finished painting it. The result is the bright colours.
If you know how I can convert from CMYK to RGB without colour loss please let me know.

I Love the look of this. Great Job author!

Author, I think if you go into Menu->Image->Mode and then choose RGB and flatten the layers it if it asks you to, then you should be able to convert it to RGB with just a slight variation in colour. CMYK colours definitely do not view well on screen. Hope it works out, GL.

Really nice flowera, just not sure on the background. The moon is way to dominant and a little to centered for me.

I like this style. Its very bold. But I have to agree about the moon. It detracts from your wonderful flowers. Maybe if you move it off to the right a little a make it not so bright, It would allow your flowers to show off more.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Mad, I will try this and hope it will come out better.
Also, I will try to do something with the moon.

Beautiful colors. Nice contrast here!

Love it!

To late to change it but I really see no problem with the moon itself, but I would dim the contrast on it so it is not so bright.

beautiful

Very Nice.......G/L Author.

Great concept...the wood and leading seem disjointed...but I like it alot.

Very nice.

thank you guys for liking it....
@stowsk: hope i hv fixed the prob.... thanks for noticing....

edit: thanks for the fave nisha and mantra...

@erathion: thanks for nice comment....

edit : thank you marina08 and ibmaxed for taking time to comment on my entry....
much appreciated...

edit: thanks for both momof4boyoboys and glockman for the nice comments....
@glockman: yeah i hv tried to shine the whole glass...
i felt it wud take a steel like effect if given a spotted shines esp
since its flat surface....

also thanks to lamantine and alan for the faves..... much appreciated...

wow,wow,wow...very nice detailed piece...well done author

Fantastic!

Great job...GL

Wonderful Job author...love that you put in the wood effect as well.

Totally great job , I like that you took the time and effort to make the glass stand out with shading and different tones. A few highlights on parts of it could have made the feeling of light shining through from the back

Great second .

Congrats for 2nd

thanks a lot for the comments and favs....

Great work author...very cool and super funny...well done

I knew it was you! I could recognize the Caricaturistics from the forum pic of you in the forum. An excellent entry with and your personal Caricaturistics displayed! Nice work! GL!

Wow..great job and lots of fun!!!! I like the whole body thing! And great hair!!!!!!

Southern gal no doubt, no shoes. nice work love the hair.

jeeesh sometime I swear it is like dial up on this site.

Well done

Thank you for your comments. Mom, I'm glad you like the whole body thing. Personally, I have issues with it. I woke up one morning and discovered my real body had been exchanged for this one. I don't know what happened. Maybe it was something I ate. And my hair...*sigh*. Its been one of the many banes of my existence. Naturally curly, you know. And before you say "I wish...", no, you don't. lol

Glockman, I'm not a southern girl. Its, like, dude, shoes are an evil creation of the establishment designed to, like, cut our ties with Mother Earth, ya know? and make us conform to The Man's, like, rigid ideas of Good and Evil. Burn your shoes, dude and experience freedom! Actually, I just like going barefoot.

I can relate to that "looking goofy first" statement

Nice job!

great stuff... he.. he.. love it..

SWEET!!!!

Fantastic!

Nice job....look like a cartoon character.....

This is great! love the look, and the title of the book in your hand makes me giggle! Best of luck!

Congrats for 3rd, nice.

WaHoo ! nice third !

Congrats...

Thank you for your votes and comments.

Nice work! GL!

Great Job...I love it!

awesome!! creative!! luv the lighting
gl author

cool work author...GL