Fyralath  05/12/07 @485

Very impressive work. No crit, look awesome.

bsnt  05/12/07 @489

great... everything looks perfect

Slapo  05/12/07 @493

Nicely done, young one

raularrieta  05/12/07 @499

looks very good, but the hair needs more dark shadow, and you should crop the bottom, there are unfinish strokes great +7/7

klungsama  05/12/07 @511

nice!

L-aura  05/12/07 @562

Beautiful work! +9

razpna  05/12/07 @577

your best i think

Madanapale  05/12/07 @609

Beautiful!.....great work Blanca! Carlos

NunoDias  05/12/07 @612

This is awesome...i risk to say its so awesome as the original painting...congrats

thomasM  05/12/07 @623

like vermeer a lot and your work is great just brighter highlights like he did (but i know it´s hard with pastels)

ViolentContact  05/12/07 @635

thanks all guys for the comments and crits! thomasM: I have to recognise I couldn't get those highlights, for example in the pearl... I need more practice haha I wish I was like Vermeer, but unfortunately, it's like I'm in kilometre 1 and he's in km 2000 lol^^

tomato04  05/12/07 @641

you have wicked skills girl

NadezhdaVasile  05/12/07 @651

just awesome!!

Gavade  05/12/07 @656

WOW, awesome pic! It has a very painterly feel to it, resembles an old masters style! I love the slight blur her left eye has, I used to use Colour pencils and I know how hard it is to achieve the right colours, but you've nailed it, very earthy feel to the portrait . . . . . +10, wish I could give you more . . . .

cupcake  05/12/07 @699

Excellent I'm sure Mom will love it. My top Mark

ARZILLIER66  05/12/07 @738

Blanca, you have a incredible technique great work +10

decrepitude  05/12/07 @800

thats a sweet gift! amazing skills, keep it up

Daykan  05/12/07 @817

WOW!!! just PERFECT!! Que me tiras la moral por el suelo, joé!!!! Es increíble!!!! Lo mejor de lo mejor!

deManuel  05/13/07 @980

Excelent work. El uso del color es perfecto y la expresión excepcional. Ya te di un 10 la cuando lo publicaste la primera vez y por supuesto esta vez no va a ser diferente. ++10 Animo. Creo que este mes lo vas a conseguir.

cnell  05/13/07 @085

i loved that movie too. damn you are good! this looks just like scarlet! top notch. top marks from me. caudia

krypt  05/13/07 @218

Great work! The skin tones are beautiful. +10

Lisbeth  05/13/07 @227

O....u did a great work again! I agree thomasM said it´s hard with pastels, +9/9

alebrije  05/13/07 @304

Esta INCREIBLE! No puedo creer que a tu edad pintes tan bien!!!! +10

Xazax  05/13/07 @337

Very detailed and ver nice work.

Dutch-Memory  05/13/07 @555

Sorry for so late Blanca! This is so beautiful, so realistic Truly a great drawing, top marks from me!

ViolentContact  05/13/07 @601

thanks all guys for your comments! If anyone wants to see my older version of this drawing (did it two years ago ) you can PM me and I will send it to you

BillCorbett  05/13/07 @603

Very impressive work, you are so very talented

bakatron  05/13/07 @835

pure class.

danheacock  05/13/07 @840

I really like this, very nicely done..I agree about he hair though, it could use a little more detail in my opinion. I bet your mom loved your rendition of it

somersetholmes  05/13/07 @884

SUPERB pencil work, Blanca, sensitive and stunning realism!

ViolentContact  05/13/07 @884

Totally agree about the hair, it needs more details and dark areas. But I was so scared of using a dark pastel on it and destroying the hair colour I created, which was quite difficult to achieve The hair and earring killed me >.< Thanks James and Baka!

Hybridos  05/13/07 @888

Excellent! looks like oil, amazing color blending! 10+

orbitsteve  05/13/07 @937

wow.......the skin tone is near realism........apart from that the cloth folds seem a little unnatural.....i mean the folds....but overall...10/10

kayness  05/14/07 @374

this is the best!!!!!! 10 from me!

zahara  05/14/07 @375

BEAUTIFUL!!!! I can see youre experimenting with your amazing talent Go girl!!!! Top marks

harmonix  05/14/07 @397

awesome work, you are so talented!

deandude  05/14/07 @621

you've clearly mastered photo reproduction....now take that skill and draw your own ideas!

ViolentContact  05/14/07 @704

thanks Dean, don't think I have mastered it (who paid you for saying that?? ), but I'm going to post very "different" drawings next month ... I will try to mix this knowledge with the ideas which I have always wanted to draw Surreal drawings I mean

deandude  05/15/07 @749

andy gave me some money, but that was for a totally different matter! seriously, I'm looking forward to your surreal stuff

infinity2080  05/15/07 @809

Wow!! i don't even know what to say.. it's perfect

Luke19  05/15/07 @815

beautiful artwork! just like what the others say! wonderful! awesome pastel work! i love that movie toO!

JillianJohnston  05/16/07 @104

absolutely brilliant! I can't find anything to criticize!!! perfect! Top marks!

Freiz  05/16/07 @234

Very pretty! The face is just overall gorgeous.

somersetholmes  05/16/07 @432

Your work is quite beautiful, the criticism is minimal, you have hit the mark and so I would suggest you don't flog yourself for it! a lovely piece of work! BRAVO!

krengetje  05/16/07 @709

not one mistake, perfect!

JESR  05/17/07 @298

woow awesome coloring portrait i like the level of detail in her eyes and face . +10/10

mementomori  05/17/07 @592

whoa, i like this better than Johannes' painting

anastasia  05/18/07 @342

Fantastic work! Top marks!!

eremita  05/19/07 @442

Amazing!

slickgreekgeo  05/20/07 @530

You're untouchable with colored pencils. +10

raufaamir  05/20/07 @611

Superb work you have done!

Alonso  05/20/07 @707

lovely done, i love scarlet!

killadore  05/20/07 @772

been meaning to comment on this one when i saw it earlier, but i forgot. well what can i say, you continue to deliver one excellent drawing after another, and that's just a pleasure to witness. wonderful work with those pastels, deserves my +10 for sure

blackshad  05/23/07 @921

Blanca this is excellent work you know very well done you can be proud hehe +10

Town  05/25/07 @495

To create such a piece at such a tender age is amazing, maybe because i don't like pastel all that much (i find it very hard to work with them, i think they require a lot of skill and insight in the manipulation of complementary qualities of colours, as well as their dark/light balance opposed to each other) Also your choice in theme makes this a superb piece. Rembrandt & Vermeer are the only two painters in my opinion to ever have achieved such a fantastic symbiosis with light. In that aspect you may have chosen a piece that was perhaps too difficult. But nonetheless, your choice of painter/painting says much abou your guts. I think indeed that elite would have been unfair at this point, but the choice of material (in this case the pastel) makes me speechless.

letjenen  06/07/07 @877

I'm new to the pastels, it's hard work - bows for you, for you mastered it already! I have a technical question: have you fixed finished work? I have fixative and after fixing my last drawing (done on black paper with hard pastels) went so dark that I have to make many corrections to make it look good again :/ do you have same problem?

Moni  06/13/07 @291

Amazing....it was my favorite artwork...and film You've sharp eyes.....looking forward to get more good works from you

OnPix-Artist  06/13/07 @761

Really beautiful work !

Icharin  06/17/07 @801

Wow, VERY talented for someone your age. You can see all the dedication and time involved with this piece. Great work!

Elitha  07/06/07 @901

Wow, that's amazing!!

soheil  07/12/07 @499

this is nice... +10

Millink  09/30/07 @586

Your use of colours really is Vermeer over again...Maybe not the finesses he has reached... But the fine, bright use of colours really is superb... Very Dutch ^^

roseatelier  02/13/08 @435

Awesome! You're a talented lady ;-) *two thumbs up*