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thank you very much, really impressive comment. I appreciate this.
You 100% right about the colours.

zoddozoddo wrote:i'm happy to have joined but i'm really sorry for the overall result. I have received some bad comments so i can't say it's a good or bad work.
Maybe the photo was taken too much near, dunno what hasn't worked.
I tried to use a "soft" painting style but it seems to be too much blurred.
She also has lot of little gems i did but they are too small to be seen. A real shame.
Sorry and good job to all

At least you made it into the top 10 and actually placed 4th, so don't whine! Obviously enough people liked your entry, so just go with it.

I'm not a huge fan of the model or the colours you used together, but I can appreciate the technical skill involved. The painting is a bit 'soft', so the natural shadows interfere with your own shading and gives the impression that you barely did anything from certain angles. I think a better light source and a better photograph would have helped.

OK guys you heard Yakface, just post in the main thread in the News section now please!

ooops sorry didn't read the message bout posting in the main thread. Will do...


Well here's a few angles of my entry. The fact is I didn't intent to participate until the last minute so I only really put about 6 hours of work on this at the most. I concentrated mostly on the face,hair and tartan, which i honestly think looked better before I added the stripes. Contrary to one comment, there are a number of levels of highlighting done on the hair. The one thing I didn't have too much time to address was the sword, which I would have preferred to airbrush a nice gradient onto. I'll be doing that soon. Thanks for those that voted for it and for the positive comments made by the users who wrote there breakdowns.