This is excellent, Diane! I find if you've been working on something for a long time, you start to hate it! Go away, take a break, come back to it later and you'll find that it's not as bad as you thought.
Exactly what I was thinking after reading your description. Diane, your pics are always clean, crisp, in focus and all the technical things are done perfectly. More than that there is a definite style and fun to your pics. I just love them! But yeah, take a break. When you come back you might have something pop into your head that you missed before. Happens to me ALL THE TIME!
And I love the light coming up under you chin and neck. Great processing no matter what you say. LOL
You obviously worked on this a lot, as we can still see the freckles on your left arm (meaning you didn't just slap a layer on top of this... Disaster? No such thing here!
This is excellent, Diane! I find if you've been working on something for a long time, you start to hate it! Go away, take a break, come back to it later and you'll find that it's not as bad as you thought, in fact it's awesome!
Great job!
Whuh?? Disaster?? HAHA! You must be a perfectionist! I can relate! I gotta tell ya though, I love this. Did you make the pattern freehand? Excellent job! Stop beating yourself up. :)
edit to add that I forgot to mention the caption that immediately popped into my head when I saw this: "Ok Zebra Girl, drop the weapon and put your hands up!" hahahaha. :) Ok, I know it sucks - a disaster even - but I am sick of coming up with captions tonight. ;-) Just ribbin ya. Smile. :)
Very unique. I'll bet that is an arduous task to paint all those stripes. Were you using a layer with a blend mode set to "Color" to preserve the highlights and shadows on your skin?
Wha?? This is neat! I would try this but my figure is not as good as yours and we all know how those turn out LOL I don't know why ya don't like it... that is some imagination you got goin there hon!