You are such a wonderful artist! I really appreciate what you do.

Thank you!

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And I'm lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat...

This is beautiful.

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Ah you’re awake! I was afraid you were dead. That would have been rather awful, you know, being tied to a dead man.

This is a bit different from what you usually do. I love snape facial features. Nice use of line too . well done

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A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

that is really beautiful. I love the old victorian feel this has got! It really looks like an illustration from a gothic novel from the 19th century!

YAY!!!! More girls!!!! See??? One shoot with me, and you've been infected with the "Girl Disease"!!!

There are tiny bits of this that make me swoon with joy, they're just so *right*...the curve of her wrist and her pinkie, on the hand lying on the blanket...the sketchy bit where the blanket is tucked in around her hips, stretching over her body...the blanket shadow on her side, by her arm...the shading on her lips...her hair (of course! ...the Rossetti lips and chin on Snape...the side of his nose, and the curve of his eyebrow...the stagey quality of the whole image...

If not one of your best pieces, this has many things that are just perfect...and I'm enjoying it for all those perfections!

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? All is silver-grey,
Placid and perfect with my art--

--Robert Browning--

I know...look what you've done to me. I actually thought of you as a I drawing it. I did the girl first and I almost left it as is knowing that you'd still like it sans Snape. I kind of wish I had left it because I don't like it very much

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And I'm lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat...

thank you--I have these wonderful books of 19th century prints that I use for inspiration: [link]
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And I'm lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat...

LOL!

I respect you too much as an artist not to acknowledge that I can see why you aren't crazy about this as an entire image...but let's face it--if we only did work we liked--we'd never grow. (And besides--there are plenty of people out there who aren't as picky as we are--they're going to be happy to see this--so why not let them get some pleasure from your practicing and growing? )

I do think that the problems with the image are fairly minor...and they're balanced by all the good points, though. (I'm a dab hand at ignoring problems, and focusing on the good bits--have to be, to get any fun out of my OWN drawings! )

There's an artist who did a smashing drawing of Bougeureau's "The Virgin and the Angels"...but he's all down on himself for the parts that didn't work...and although sure, I can see them--overall, the image has so much going for it, that it's quite wonderful. [link] I told him pretty much what I'm telling you--it'd be a shame, not to share it--because the rest of us aren't looking at it with the eagle eye of the creator...we just want to enjoy it!

Oh--and I meant to tell you! We've been featured in a news article! [link] (In with some really good other art, too! ) And on another site I'm on--one that screen's images before allowing them on the site, our picture not only got instant approval (a sign that it was deemed so good, it didn't need to go through the usual voting/screening process)...but made the front page, this week! [link]

How cool is THAT??!!!

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? All is silver-grey,
Placid and perfect with my art--

--Robert Browning--

I was thinking of you this morning... don´t ask me why, just hoping you could post more of your art... and I am happy to see you are still doing Snape... because to me he is Snape!!! Bittersweet .... it makes me want to him! Excellent as an illustration!