Nice.

you get the highest honor. My vote. +5
~o

this is beautiful ... I like the effect of the wet clothing, very well done.

yes. the clouds, the water. wonderful.

very good.

Amazing details and painting as usual!! Great job on the wet clothes clouds and ocean!! Simply Amazing!

.....omg.
i suddenly feel very inferior...
bloody amazing! )

Amazing, absolutely amazing.The ocean and the way you gave the wet look on the shirts. Wish i could do that.

I feel another "Member Gallery #1" coming up for you

I've done an artwork with the same title... but it's really different
By the way, well done work.

The subject matter to me is a lot like a romance novel cover, so I'm not really into it. However, when I loaded up the image I really said "wow" out loud when I saw the water and the shirt. I seem to find the man's body slightly out of proportion in the legs compared to his upper muscle size and he seems a little stiff in the neck area (I think this is due to too strong a jaw line under his neck. He is looking down, and the skin would build up and take away from the jaw line). Ah, but that's all fussy stuff, really great technique. ... damn that water is good!

Not bad. The water's fair, the figures all right (apart from slight proportion problems mentioned above). The effect of wet cloth quite plausible. The clouds are more than a little waxy, though, and there are bits where I do not agree with your shading, especially the man's chest and nose, and that particularly colorless patch under the woman's arm.

i love your works! greats!

Nice romance concept but not up to your usual standards.

I think if you are going to use reference pictures for clouds, also read up on what type of cloud it is because that will make it more relalistic when you know more than the visual aspect of it.

Looks excellent. +7
As for a crit- the waves are looking too small to have a 'barrel' like that,usually you just get foam at the coast... doesnt matter all that much but its making your figures look gigantic.

ohhh......... 56th Elite...

Who cares if the subject is romance, its still darn beautiful, besides nice to see something other than faries and elves or warriors for a change.....I can dream sweet things tonight. If I only had that man! lol [although I probably shouldn't say that when it's a tragedy depicted....}

dudey thats all i can say......

awww....it's sad...but absolutly gorgous!

+9 here, as always.

It's nice.. only problem I notice is it looks a bit plastic

Yet another fantastic piece from a fantastic artist!!! I can't wait for the elite nominations next month!!!!! If you have of had four pieces of work in your gallery this month you would have been elite by now!

Very well done!

I absolutely love the woman's figure, especially how she looks almost marblized. Great work!

Thank you for the coments and crits. There are a couple very valuable points you have given me. I will take them into the consideration and see what I can do to improve the pic.

She's got the blue skin of a drowned one.
Good work there.
Thoghtfully done, although the whole scene makes me curious now.
These days, I want to know what it is the artist is trying to tell, background and foreground of the pictures story...
Why are they dressed like that, and why are they near the ocean...He's dressed like a character from Anne Rice's works, and she's dressed like as if she stepped out of Morganna's realms.
Odd, and nice.

wow, just amazing, this image is completely filled with emotions, sad theme but beautiful painting

well, all i can say is very nice......

As dramatic and sweeping as this painting is, the strong emotion you've tried to convey kinda falls flat to me because the guy looks so dang serene. He seems to be falling asleep on his feet, not anguished. I really, really wish his expression had more life to it - it's just placid, sleepy, and blank. I've found that artists get so afraid to make their faces anything but transcendently beautiful that they won't play with expressions. Yes, it's not as attractive when faces are scrunched up with grief, but it's a lot more powerful than a placid mask.

Otherwise, I love how his left hand is splayed. Nice detail. The water's cool too. The lighting is off tho'. It's so even on the figures yet the clouds have strong light coming on 'em from the right. It kinda makes it look like they're on a stage with a canvas backdrop behind 'em.

I adore how you don't have her boobs flying everywhere. Most people would have her clothes ripped off and her pundenda flapping, but you restrained yourself. Good job.

All in all this is a pretty kickass painting. But keep your focal points in mind and make them jive with your theme.The focal point here is Sir's face and he looks bored with himself.

Wow ,This a great work.

Wow there is some very nice stuff here

member gallery number 1, now what did I tell you? ^_^

nice ocean and sky.
but the theme is more than pathetic...:/
the male charakters`proportians are wrong.
and the skin of both looks a lil bit like datas from star trek.
anyway, good job

Impresionante Trabajo, realmente en nivel insuperable

Great job, but it looks like you used two separate pics for references because the lighting is not working for both of them. It works for each separately, but not together. I also think the waves are too small to be crashing into the rock like that, unless these two figures are supposed to be giants...

And the figures are oddly bright considering the weather conditions.

the water effect looks like real...amazing picture!!~

Um... why aren't you elite?

Very nice!
however I experienced one setback while viewing the image...
I kept hearing a guy screaming "MARIA!!!" in my head and the name "Fabio" popped in to mind a few times.
Otherwise I love it. Maybe a little more uniqueness in his face actually... for some reason I feel like I've seen his face a thousand times before.
*shrugs* I like

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she would have been if there had been 4 artworks in her gallery last month, no doubt

I really do like the ocean and thoses nice lights effects +5! I would give more if I could.

I love it! Just one thing... there is a lot of light in the image, but no shadows on the grpund...

I think there's something not quite right about the man's face and chest....

Beautiful and unique work! Worth everything....I love it.

Great detail ! The shading , skin tones - the texture of clothing - beautiful display & talent .

this picture has inspired me to do fanart

The details are very nice, but i think the whole piece could use more shadows. Right now I feel the charcters are not really in the landscape, just atop it. I think proper shadow and light play would bind the two more convincingly. PS> did you consider possibly some mist, especially around the man's legs, that would really put him IN the landscape as well...

wonderfull

Wow ...Amazing..Love the wet effect

Wow ...Amazing..Love the wet effect

+7
Wonderful stuff

Love the effect of the wet clothes sticking to their bodies with that slight translucency.

Quick! CPR!

Picky I've always loved your work and I think this is fantastic! I love the theme,
it's so calming and romantic. You've evoked the emotion you intended. You are a
class act!

Great painting and fantastic idea! I luv it ^^

wonderful..i love it!
i love the expression on the guy's face
very well done

the lifelessnes of the girl is almost life-like......excellent work, bravo.

CONGRATS! You're an elite member now!

exelent work ... but i think its to beautiful ...
feel kind a freaky when i look that ...

; ; It's beautiful! Brilliant.

i feel the love...

there's a slight lack of shado on the ground, and i dont like the placidity of his expression, but overall this is a brilliant piece. The wet clothing is amazing. I love all your work, keep it up.

awesome.

the water looks so incredible good

The moment has a unique feel about it...i love this one! it's more than gr8!

Wow this is dramatic and sad. Her body is so.... limp. And her skin tone is just so cold and sad. The clothing is great, very wet looking!!. I think the man needs more of a emoptional expression but you can't have everything? haha.

BRILLIANT JOB. But I really love the vib off thid painting and the womans body. It's very sad. The background is also very brilliant!
+10
Rae