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Congratulations to nitenurse A humble submission from the foggy desert

OH Boy! Two great images. I can only stand (well sitting now) in awe of the talent. I like both for totally separate reasons: Daniels your very clever use of my home planet creates a warm spot on my anatomy. I too, feel the clouds -though a great idea- miss the mark compared to the quality of the rest of your work. The light and shadow of the planet is impressive in both contrast and colors (colours) and the “terminator” is interesting in its location and shape. NiteNurse79 this is quite a tour de force. An everyday object re-invented into a stylistic shape that moves the viewer into a different vantage point. My initial reaction was similar to EER's re: the hands. But then I began to "see" a possibility, that if the crystal (no common glass or plastic here) were a dome shape from the end of the hands up to the center and was flatter from the end of the hands to the surround, then the end of the hands would be 'blurry" from distortion by the crystal.... (boy, that is a stretch to the laws of credibility ) Blathering aside, my stars are: NiteNurse79 = 5; Daniels = 4 Current Totals : NiteNurse79 's = 10 Daniels 's = 8

XIA ! Hey Now's the time brother, to show 'em what you got----Go For It! Sorry for getting off topic and side tracked

I positively refuse to sing/add any verse about, clover or rolling or any such nonsense. Besides I'm too pure for that sort of thing... Oh, bye the bye whilst perusing the info web net I came across a picture of two of our own fine fellows ( No doubt the basis of their musical references) in days gone by -I suppose text PDN/ picture for Illustration purpose only

Xia Trying hard not sound like an old grouchy teacher, I would gently suggest that you give the form of how Image Battles works (see page one of this post, also the maximum picture size etc.) which will make your inputs of both illustration and opinion (voting for your favorite) most welcome. By giving each of the current contestants your "stars" (i.e. maximum of 5 each of your votes) and updating the count as you can see in the other posts will provide the current entry's to receive their due. Then when the current contest is over (one of the contestants reaches 15 stars) you can enter your illustration in competition with another member. Your illustration is certainly worthy of a good contest and the voters comments will be a help to give you the knowledge to continue to improve even more. Good Luck; looking forward to seeing more of your work in the future.

AHHH! Run for Your LIVES!

Spectre, Many thanks for the helpful words and ideas. I agree completely, with your assessment of the match needing more texture. However I had reached my current limit of drawing ability and decided to stop before I went totally bonkers. (despite what some near me feel, I have already done-sigh) I am looking forward to my next project, to see what can be done.

Current scoring: dynCysgodol 9 Chimay12321 8

dynCysgodol I really like the light effects playing on the metal, the rivets have just to look needed to make them "real" I do think the lines in the center of the star would be better left out, but regardless, well executed Chimay12321 Your work is most interesting, the "triptych" method is a good use of your photo. I would like to suggest that you consider in future projects of this type having a variation of "style"- between all three sections; to give each its own variation/ character, while maintaining a unified look to the whole for the piece. As apposed to the current blurry-sharp- blurry . Hope this makes a kind of sense as I'm sure you have the talent to do it. dynCysgodol I give 6 Chimay12321 I give 4 Current scoring: dynCysgodol 10 Chimay12321 8

Just a quick Thank You to you all, for the kind and understanding comments. ​Going to try something else, soon....... ..now where are those phase reduction coils??? And Welshblue , ya just have to understand that: Dogs have masters, Cats have staff ,,,,see? simples

Thank You nitenurse for polishing off this long suffering contest. so to copy your comment of, NEXT! is ........ME with my grand grubby effort.. well I like it ---sorta... .now back to my day job......

Egad Sir; that looks very like a game thingy ......Oh wait! I just read your text....Hurrumph, Ah good job, yes, very good job

I caught her playing with matches again....what to do?, what to do? 100% PDN except for the portrait of "Herself- the Queen of all she surveys" which I snapped -catching her unawares. original's LINK> http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/PropDuster_album/P%20dot%20N/100_0686_zps8d1e5ae8.jpg Not that it will make a hill of coffee grounds, but this is a first foray, for me, into showing a PDN project.

WoW all very technical but I'm sure you can figure out a combination to acheave your goal But about the ..."learning curve"..... UH, would it be ...... NAH! ..............must be something else...... 'cause I pictured .......... But No! , likely another meaning all together

OK Nervous Nelly Noob here hope this is abstract enough to qualify Gulp all PDN except cat she's mine, well I'm really just her staff; but you know how that is.

's all good

Very clear and clean rendering of character and text also. You should be quite pleased with you well spent effort (translation: Ya Done real good ). My only small query would be; Is the seeming vast amount of the open space-background color vs the character & text a requirement of the receiving medium? or could there be an upsizing adjustment in the character & text to better fill the amount of apparent space? Regardless, i like it.

oh contraire mon ami (aren't I just too continental?) I did cast my vote for this pair. Yepee! So in following the rules (well mostly, at least the ones, I like) I am prohibited from casting another vote. So I am "frozen out" so's to speak But THANK YOU for your vote ....... .........NEXT!

OH, For crying out loud! Come On People! Where are the votes/voters??? Hummm? Thankfully Nitenurse, donated her valued time to straighten out the voting; AGES ago (well in a fruit fly's time frame ) Which leads us to MikeRobe and Beta0 deserving some response to their entry's. Now before I run further afoul of the rules and "HE" strikes me down , I'll close my rant-et* .......................................................................................................................................................*smaller than normal rant Besides just 'cause I want to enter a sig, an' can't 'til these two buffalo's er Fine Artists move on down the road uh get their awards doesn't have anything to do with it.........well maybe just a scouch

Agree, not liking the "n" shape so much. ...... ...Gotta be a solution ............ OH WAIT I have it! ,(Glug!)............ looks all betternow. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Seriously: PDN = pretty darn neat. And It's shinny too! I like the whole shinny,light bouncing, furry-soft background idea. The light "flairs" (Little bright bits adjacent to the brightest dot/"star") are, well, brilliant. Looking just like lens flairs Well done.

Why, NO One, you would know... Sir... ............................................. (WHEEEW hope that throws him off, just enough, to keep my rep pts intact )

Well I like everybody equally.......though some more equally than others. That said and in the interest of full disclosure, I must admit I like the Moderators (all hail their names) MOST equally of all. And thats the truth........ ....................................................

I read, and I obey (well not really, but there you have it). Seriously Thanks for the comments Version II (I made a bunch more but think this gets closer to the expectation)

OK I have been like a fly on this forum ( buzzing around annoying people) for some time. I have tried to enter constructive critiques and use terrible pithy remarks to compensate for my lack of any submissions. All the while continually being amazed and awed at the considerable talent present here. All this ; is to preface my only and first cloddish attempt at a signature block. I present I beg for your constructive criticism. Note:Please keep the gales of laughter at a minimum. it might overwhelm the servers

Both are very nicely crafted. However my vote goes to Mike, as his has a solid compact aspect (text-color -"electric flame") to clearly get his message/name across. Beta0 your background effects are almost ethereal, very nice. The text color however, gets lost into the background, losing its value as a signature. Though I do like the font. MikeRobe 1 Beta0 0