Hi to all and welcome to the FM newcomers, great place for artists, hope everything goes well for you.

Yup, that's a striking image, attention grabbing, red is such a powerful colour. Yes, I agree, Photoshop is way too expensive, especially when there is such great stuff for free-ish, I always try to remember nothing is free somebody has to give up their time. I use GIMP, I used Photoshop and other e...

Facebook I avoid it as much as possible as with most stuff of that nature online but that's not because of recent event's I have always known about data rape online, stealing your profile, usage and selling it to the highest bidder. I looked at that site and one thing came to mind, "If somethin...

Hello Everyone, I too am new here;- Just signed up tonight. This looks like a fabulous place and I have really enjoyed looking at some of your work. I am hoping I will learn a thing or two from you all. :) By the way, I have never written in a forum before so please forgive me if I'm doing this wro...

Hi there and a happy merrymass to you also, thanks, Bog.

OK, your welcome, Bog.

Hi Aoifnm, welcome to FM, hope everything goes well for you, all the best, Bog.

Hi Dorothyof0z246, thank you for the feedback it always helps but I haven't finished yet, ha, ha. Realistic, my interpretation of realistic is really photographic realism, I think everybody sees the world like a photograph looks or like a film. Where everything is changing, light conditions and move...

Hi Grandaddyearl, thanks, there is more to this. I also remember that it was adopted by alcamists because of the dule nature of the symbolisim. That is partly why it is miss represented as a dark sinister being as alcamists where considerd to be witches and even today they are considered to be unhol...

Thank you for your reply and advice, I am just trying to work on making my drawings more realistic and I also like to get inspiration from other artists on here and get ideas on How to do certain types of art aswell. I am trying to also see if I even have potential to have the kind of drawings or a...