hello everyone!

I love this site. I found it a couple of weeks ago but only now had the time to post something of mine.
I've been looking at your beautiful art and getting a lot of inspiration from it!

This is an unfinished work but I would love to receive some comments on it. What's good, what's bad...

Thanks a lot!

Jenni

http://www.drawing-portraits.com

Hi Jenni

Thanks!!
It's great to receive a feedback you know! I've been trying to create courage to post here and finally today I decided what the heck..

Right now I am wondering how to make my pictures bigger. I see a lot of other posts show them in a much larger size. Do you know where I should go in the site to learn that?

Best Wishes!

Linda:D

I know what you mean about enough courage to post, but you have nothing to worry about. You should have seen some of my earlier posts and I still think my artwork is so lame next to everyone else's. But what I love about this site is that everyone is here to help each other ,not brag, and I have come so far thanks to the advice of people in here.

I hope I helped you a little bit

P.S I have aol instant messenger, yahoo messenger and icq if you ever want to buzz me

Jenni

http://www.drawing-portraits.com

I am curious about how you did your drawing. Is it charcoal? It has a textured look to it, as if it was rubbed over something. I love the effect.

Your composition is very interesting and the angle makes it even more mysterious. I know a lot of artist are really into photo realism and detail but this style of yours is great! Very bold!

Please post more!

D.L. Hesse

Thank you for your review! I really love your art. One of my favorites is the little girl sleeping - so beautiful.

I drew this on that charcoal paper, it's kinda rough so it gives this texture. I used a little bit of pencil at first and then I used charcoal. I'm still working on it and when it's done I'll post it again.

Thank you so much for your words - I am really very excited about this website!

Linda

Jenni

I just visited your website. Wow... Beautiful!

http://www.drawing-portraits.com

Bill Johnston gave me some advice on posting bigger files in a post last week...here is what he said:

"I always do my scans at 300dpi and save as a grayscale TIF file so that I will have a suitable file for printing (the TIF file format is lossless). I always keep this file as my original master. Then I re-sample the image to 72 dpi in Photoshop (this matches the resolution of the screen - VERY important step). Then, if you use Photoshop, use the "Save for Web" feature and choose the JPG format. You can easily adjust the quality setting to get the file size you want with almost no noticeable image degradation. This really works quite well. If you don't have photoshop, just save the 72 dpi image as a jpeg using whatever photo editing program you have. There will be a way to set the quality (or compression) of the new file that will accomplish basically the same thing I described in photoshop."

A lot of members with website link their images from their sites so they don't have to worry about the 70kb limit at all.

Hope this helps. See you around!
Beth

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

I like your drawing ... looking forward to seeing it when it's finished.