I like the shadows and the intensity of the lips and the eye expression..nice +7

i agree with juni the eyes are pretty cool..nice shadows good job

Lovely work, very nice expression! You should clean it and contrast it a little IMO. Good drawing!
+9

so gorgeous, especially the lips ! and the lighting on the hair also. critique - maybe darken round her right eye a lil

i think you need to show a little more neck on the left side.
nice drawing though.

Nice Face nice Work i think. +9/10

Wow! I love this one Amanda, scanner might be the problem, but I've found even with good scanners levels need to be adjusted in an imaging program. Top marks!

I don't think it's a scanner problem. I personally just mess with the image>adjustments>levels. Just play with the 3 arrows a little, and I'm positive you'll get your darks darker, and possibly your lights lighter. =) Great work.

Great drawing! +10

Cool portrait, good job.

very beutiful, i like the expression on the eyes and the lips are perfect =)
no real critiques on this, nothing that cant be fixed with playing around a bit with contrast and levels and maybe cleaning a bit the white parts of the image
+7

Beautiful!! Is this from a picture or something?

Really nice. Shows good emotion, beautiful.

AWESOME +10/10. ITS PERFECT.

this is awesome~!

wat's the white lines doing there overall? are u trying to erase the dirty spots? try adjust it using 'level' in photoshop. press Ctrl + L

Very beautiful portrait. I like the way you have done the edges.
All my pencil drawings come out bad on my scanner so I have to enhance the contrast etc slightly in photoshop.

thank you everyone for the great comments and tips! i obviously need to get photoshop. ( =
thanks again
-amanda

Very Nice work on this.
+9

ooh, i've seen that ad. dolce and gabbana i think... nice work overall! great skin, the lips thhe hair the eyes,....... why aren't you elite yet!!!

Fantastic shading overall and love the eyes and lips. Very pretty and my favorite of your works.
If you cannont get Photoshop right away you can try a free graphics program that will let you manipulate the levels,hue/saturation and so on. Here is one you can check out http://www.irfanview.com/
Also the software with your scanner could be able to do some adjustments too.
Good luck.

this is awesome!! good shadowing!i like the eyes! good job!!!

Incredible!!! as i look....my heart beats fast! wow this really evokes a lot of emotion for me. wonderful work!
Keith

thank you everyone for the much appreciated comments ( =

great shadowing

hi amik could you reply after i comment so i know you got the compliment i think it looks great so what are the techniques you you use to make the shading look so real i'm newbie

any person willing to give some tips to ah beginner

thanks for the comments ( =
and KingJason, I noted you ( =

auesome!! I love ur use of shading - Well done amanda

One of my favourit parfumes and favourit art style, wonderful job Amanda, excellent

Your portfolio is absolutely astonishing. You ARE my new hero.

She looks so wet!!
great lips

nobody elese you could do this beautiful work... +9

gorgeous facial expression!
(very subtle)

love the little freckles in her face Q__Q adorable !

very nice and realistic :d you draw great

nice work

This drawing is exquisite - actually, jen turned me on to your portfolio and I love your work. The texture of your line work in this drawing and the negative space add so much for me.

I agree with BioWorkZ - that you could simply adjust the levels in PhotoShop, but I'd suggest the following procedure (rather than randomly adjusting the sliders for black, mid-grey and white):

Move the far right slider toward the left axis and the image will become less and less recognizable - this is ok. Once you can barely see the image anymore, click the black (left) eyedropper and click the last discernible area of black nearest to the focal point of the image. If you are not satisfied with the selection, re-click until the black reference looks good.

This will recalibrate your black reference so that that pixel will become true black and every other pixel will be adjusted accordingly. To adjust the white reference, you can manually move the right slider along the axis or you can move the left slider toward the right and once the image becomes indiscernibly dark, click the white eyedropper and select the last area closest to white near the focal point of the image.

Once you are satisfied with the black and white references, you can move the middle slider to the left to increase contrast or right to reduce contrast between the black and white.

Hope this helps!

jason

Lovely work!
Really beautiful, +10

wow hahah thats f**king awesome!!! my max! (+9)

Awesome!!! I really like the cross hatching!!!

this is totally amazing... loved that ad too!
great pencil work!
+9/9

Very nice work, adore the way you finished off the art at the bottom . . . .

Top work . . . .

I like this drawing very much, it's something in it that caughts eye for a longer while...
I'm a new user of gfx, but I visit galleries here from few years. believe me or not, I remember this drawing and the description of it

and scanning or making photos of pencil drawings is hell.

Really really awesome
Deff my fav work of yours!
+8

Awesome pencil work!
As far as the scanner goes I think it has to do with the fact that scanners send light pulses and catch the return off the surface of the image. So whatever you capture is like sitting in a dark room looking at your sketch with two flashlights taped next to your eyes, both of them pointing at the sketch.

this is very nice... love the lips and the eyes