Excellent work! Good luck

Wow, it's brilliant!!! Wow!

Darn it! You're too good!

very good

Ah yes quite good, question ,what is the reflection in ,water, then is he sitting in it ? but your drawing is skillfully executed, very nice.

very well done

Amazing work .Always i am impressed by the skill to use your pencils .

It's hard to stay anonymous when you put out such a unique work of art everytime with the same texture apllied but at the sme time I don't mind one bit. Fabulous and inspiring work, as always!

Congrats for your first place, Wind!

nice work

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm.... How did you.... WOW!!! *speechless* It's amazing! Winner!

amazing

Nice work with the shading and blending, looks real nice.

Very tight! Well done!!! I'm glad at least one entry is going to stick around

Thank you so much!

very good shading.....great entry GL

Perfect

Well done, author

Impressive work! Almost took it for a picture.

Well.... very good entry....Happy New Year to you and good luck!

Thank you all for all your wonderful comments; I really appreciate it! Happy new year to all, and best wishes!

Good enough to win a photography contest, excellent blend! Author, how many hours did you spent on making this piece?

Thank you, metalhips. It took me a long time to get this to look about half way decent. I'd say about five to six hours, mainly because there was a lot of issues I had to deal with. The biggest one being posing in front of a mirror — hoping to keep a consistent angle —with a metal object, that gets heavy after holding it up for so long, trying to study the effects the light has on it, while trying to keep the same lighting before the sun rises and shines through the blinds. It was all worth the pain and effort since its a great form of study; you learn, and keep alert!

Thank you Author, All the best! Looking forward to see your future works.

Congrats for your second place and a Happy New Year, Coltranized!

Very nice! I really like this!

i like the idea....very nice

Nice sketch work and coloring, I like the soft tones and overall feel of this.

It's fantastic!!!

Good inspiration Love Caravaggio

I just wish I could have the original! Great job, author

I really like this. The blue ink outline gives it a really nice feel. One issue is the size of her right hand. It looks like a man's hand compared to the other. Still, this is way better than the stickmen I can draw! (PS: what is the watermark at the bottom?)

The anaglyph brand of paper ..Canson JA..

Magical time....I 'm always surprised about the way you think your composition. Vibrant background ,transparency of the lake and the diagonal movement of the lady made this drawing very good! Congratulation, author...also Happy New Year!

Congrats for your third place and a Happy New Year, Roon!

nice shading

Very very good! Good job!

Ha! I love that snout of the dog on the bottom left! Very good! Good luck!

Sorry I Didn't add a title

Who ever cleans the floor after dark does a darn good job, and deserves to be paid more! Nice entry!

lol Thank you "Coltranized" Happy New year!!!!

Happy new year to you too! And good luck!

Way better than I could ever do but more of a shadow than a reflection. I think a reflection would be directly below the subject on a horizontal surface. An angled surface might have a full reflection. Still, really nice work.

@chaplain, I believe the reflection would be in the position that it is, but evan if it wouldn't is still adds an artistic effect the the image

It seems that he stay on an ice rink looking to his empty face...Nothing distracting in the background...Interesting view of emptiness.... Goog luck to you!

Uhhh, that's not a reflection.... the angle of incidence should be the same as angle of reflection.... Meaning it should be vertical in this case...

@wlado, yes you may be correct but it is for an artistic effect

Well, the traditional drawing is a special representation of inner world . I think that -in this drawings- we want to find more than a realistic representation. We discuss here about design and composition, about sublimation of reality, technique, including tonal development, about artist's strong sense of individuality and inventiveness and so on...Even here are rules, contest rules....we are free to represent the reality as distorted as we feel....as soon as the image awaken interest in an artistic way....Well....it is my opinion.....and yes, in my point of view, I can see a reflexion here

FYI: You can edit the name of the title anytime in my stuff/my contests