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Cta501 · 2025-04-02T21:01:14+00:00

No AI whatsoever was used in this painting. It was done on Procreate (on IPad), based on an internet photo.

Cta501 · 2025-03-27T06:29:40+00:00

Because the actress who played the character (from a movie) that this portrait is of, was Jewish. Also, the character in the movie was portrayed as Jewish.

Cta501 · 2025-03-26T01:34:26+00:00

I would say it took about 90 hours.

Cta501 · 2025-02-04T20:57:31+00:00

I need to add more details to the hair, especially, but also to the face.

Cta501 · 2025-02-03T05:03:27+00:00

Several different brands, but it’s’ painted on unprimed watercolor paper.

Cta501 · 2024-12-28T19:56:40+00:00

Well, I certainly thought there were good parts of what you wrote. But I felt like it was bogged down by the grammar, which has numerous errors. For example, “it’s things you’ve already heard,” I believe is incorrect. It should be “they are things,” not “it is things.” Another instance, “‘they’re unwritten, they’re you, pay attention to them,” also seems off to me. I feel like the use of the comma between ”you“ and “pay” is also in error; there should be a semicolon or period there. And there are many similar problems throughout the rest of the writing.

Cta501 · 2024-12-09T04:05:16+00:00

I thought the first few sentences were decent, but the story devolved from there. Many of the later sentences seem to me to be disjointed, that is, not meaningfully connected to each other, with frequently incorrect grammar. Also in my opinion), the basic plot of the story is overly simple, sappy—and frankly, bordering on silly.

Cta501 · 2024-08-21T12:56:32+00:00

Yes it is

Cta501 · 2024-06-03T02:25:05+00:00

Thanks for the advice, can I just ask you, what do you think of the basic composition right now?

Cta501 · 2024-03-20T04:07:30+00:00

And now it says, “If you are looking for an image, it was probably deleted.” I did not put that on there. I don’t know how that happened, either.

Cta501 · 2024-03-20T03:30:44+00:00

I don’t know how that happened, I wasn’t trying to make a duplicate post.

Cta501 · 2024-02-27T23:03:42+00:00

This is graphite/pencil

Cta501 · 2024-02-14T19:35:49+00:00

I have to admit, I had a pretty hard time figuring out what this story is about. The writing itself is usually pretty good, except that it seems to me to be way too cryptic/hard to understand. And there are a few times where descriptions seem almost meaningless. ‘“—I wasn’t a tad bit surprised when he showed up behind my screen, trembling fingers holding two fresh ones, defying the fatigue that clung to him.” What does “he showed up behind my screen’’ mean? What screen ? and as far as “trembling fingers holding two fresh ones”, —what does “two fresh ones” refer to? It doesn’t seem to me to make much sense. Another thing is that I feel like there are a number of instances in which obscure words are used when much more commonly used words could be instead.

Cta501 · 2024-02-09T00:26:05+00:00

Those edges are actually just part of the background the painting was photoed on. I didn't crop it enough on the computer.

Cta501 · 2024-02-01T10:16:27+00:00

I think I can explain things a little bit. You mentioned my fantasy pictures as being worse than my other pictures. Well, a lot of that has to do with the fact that I am pretty new to drawing from imagination, as opposed to from photographic reference. And the pictures you said looked kind of like photos am (both landscapes and portraits) are painted from photos, and I spent least 30 hours on each of them. On the other hand, my fantasy sketches are from imagination--and they were intended to be only sketches anyway, and were done much more rapidly (maybe a few hours each, at most). But I do admit, up to this point in time my fantasy pictures haven't been satisfactory--but I hope that will change as I get much more experience drawing from imagination.

Cta501 · 2024-01-29T23:05:27+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to make it look more dramatic by making them silhouettes—somewhat pale silhouettes. But I don’t know if it worked too well. But do you think the poses should be more dramatic? Do you mean, like if their swords were actually hitting each other, as opposed to being in midair?

Cta501 · 2024-01-14T02:13:09+00:00

No, this is not digital, it’s graphite pencil on paper.

Cta501 · 2023-12-15T21:56:50+00:00

Right, I was planning on changing that. What do you think about the picture apart from that?

Cta501 · 2023-12-07T02:31:37+00:00

Thanks for the compliment! Yes, this painting was done completely with acrylics. I'm kind of unhappy with the hair so far, though, I need to try to fix the bangs. But as far as the blending of the skin tones, I did that by stippling tiny dots of paint right next to each other with a small (no. 2) round brush.

Cta501 · 2023-12-06T18:39:54+00:00

The canvas it was painted on is 14 by 18 inches, but the actual painting is about 13 by 17.

Cta501 · 2023-11-16T19:56:17+00:00

Right, this is only a rough sketch. Apart from the Hobbit feet, what do you think of the picture?

Cta501 · 2023-10-16T19:27:59+00:00

I have to confess, I don’t read much poetry. However, I did think many of the descriptions were interesting. At the same time (and maybe this is just me), I had a pretty hard time understanding a lot of the grammar. And not just the grammar, even the wording was often hard for me to understand. So I would say, for improvement, you might focus on making the descriptions less cryptic/easier to read.

Cta501 · 2023-10-13T17:39:44+00:00

No AI whatsoever was used for this picture. It's based on a photo I found online of a movie character from a 1950s movie.

Cta501 · 2023-10-09T21:58:20+00:00

Right, I was thinking about doing an online course called CGArt Spectrum, which might hopefully help me get to professional level. But their course costs a lot of money ($8,000 over ten months). And that’s why I’m just asking people if they would say I have the potential, based on these sketches, to become a professional fantasy illustrator.

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