I've seriously underestimated cross hatching in the past, I might give it a go sometime.

Beautiful model..lovely portrait!!!

Handsome lady.

Thank you cyclops, you are one adorable, balmy man yourself.

I like this one the best so far. Good stuff.

Very nice work..!

So very nice! Your talent is amazing...♥

looks just like her, great job

oh cool!..thank you so much!...:-)

Beautiful!! and I adore the hat, too!!

Joyce, will you please share some photos of yourself too?

Handsome and wonderful draw!!!!

duper :)

Are you using mostly the watercolor tool? These are truly wonderful. They're making me want to start drawing again.

me, too!!

I hope you do start drawing again :) No I'm using the pen tool mostly, on very very low opacity. When I first joined the watercolor tool on Oekaki was my favorite tool ever.. but it's been awhile since I've used it, I'm not as good with it anymore so nowadays I just stick to the pen tool, although there are still effects I don't know how to acheive with it..

Maybe they all thought you were a girl because you have a girl's portrait as a profile image.

Maybe. That girl is my crappy attempt at lily allen.

Black Bird looks great! Nice nice nice...I love all of these portraits!!

Ah, nice. I love Elvgren. I think it's fun now and then to try to mimic a style. And you did a good job with that.

Hey, did you name it recently?

I have a book on Elvgren, its on display in my bookcase. One of my prized possessions.
@Dot, I have been looking into art classes, none that tickled my fancy a lot.
@Shell, not so much as a problem with drawing from drawings, I've done quite a few, it'd just be so nice to use real people and see how much I could improve (or the opposite)

Yeah I did, it's what I was going to name it all along, we also did a version on RMD with the same title.

*hugs lori*

:)

They can't smile. You have to gauge their mood by body language. The colors are so yummy.

Really good.

already awesome.

This is some good shit right here Shell-ay.