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Published: 2008-11-22 07:44:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 15633; Favourites: 671; Downloads: 0
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oil on panelthank you to for the amazing and beautiful stock photo i used as reference.
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An extra special thanks to and for suggesting it as a DD and to for featuring it!! All wonderful artists – please go check out their work.
And “thank you” to everyone for all the favs and encouraging comments. The sun sure does seem to be shining on my ass today!!
Also – I’m not sure who added the quote from Elvis Costello down there, but just so everyone knows - Elvis deserves the credit for those words
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Comments: 163
somehow I can't help the head and background reading as a watermelon
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Haha... that's a new one. I can't help but see what you mean.
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This may be my favorite painting I have seen on deviant art in the year I have been here. Very well done.
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Thank you so much... greatly appreciated!!
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This is creepy but epic at the same time. I love it xD
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dude, this is awesome. i guess everyone else has told you that, too.
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i've received some nice comments... it never hurts to hear them again, though
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Simply amazing, you have a wonderful style. Absolutely brilliant, I'm pretty blown away by this piece in all honesty - it's stunning. x
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thank you for the kind comment
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Very interesting image, nicely done.
It would be nice to credit Elvis Costello for the lyrics of Pretty Words.
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thanks
if you'll notice - it wasn't me that quoted elvis costello. it' must have been either the guy that featured it or one of the fellows that recommended it. at any rate - i made sure to give old elvis the credit when i edited my artist's comment.
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I was making general observation - no offense intended. It is an interesting piece, and actually does have a lot of resonance with the lyrics.....
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Nicely done, not the photo though, look at the histogram - it has a big gap on top.
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what the fuck are you talking about?
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No need to be rude. [link]
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I’ve never had a critique of my “histogram” before. Maybe, though, that’s because I don’t much bother with photography or digital arts... with traditional artists this isn’t any kind of issue. Pretty much all I want to do is capture what my drawing or painting looks like… I adjust a little with the contrast, saturation, color balance, etc. until I feel it’s a fair representation of what I’ve done on canvas. I can’t really see how it matters if my “histogram” is all neat and tidy.
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If a histogram has a gap on top, that may indicate that the photo was underexposed. To check if it is indeed so, open up Photoshop/Gimp go to Ajustments>Levels, and set up the top slider accordingly -> [link] This usually also saturates the image more, so lowering the saturation after that might be also a good idea.
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when i look at my painting and then i look at the photo on my computer screen they look pretty much the same. i don't care if my histogram wins your seal of approval.
here's the essence of what i'm saying...
who cares?
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I thought you care. Sorry, tried to help. It looks better for me with levels fixed.
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that's what you're thinking when you look at my artwork? that the levels aren't acceptable? sorry - paying attention to such minutia seems kinda petty to me.
how is it you're able to view my histogram anyway?
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don't get me wrong, the painting is fine, and the levels bother me just a little. I don't have to view the histogram to know that it's off - it looks like a thin grey film on top of your whole picture.
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i've been thinking about it and... well - i suppose i'm glad that you pointed out the histogram issue after all. sorry i was such a hard on.
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