Hi again look every single picture is fantastic thats all i can say because they are so good. All my love and bubbles from kerri-marie xoxoxoxoxo

Marlies Peeters replies: "Thank you kes, you're the greatest!"

ahh. this is something i was never able to do. draw people. i'm okay at drawing other things...just nooot people. You however, are doing great! this is the kind of stuff that inspires me to write. The best of luck, and i'll keep coming back to see your updates!
(thanx for reading my story by the way

Marlies Peeters replies: "The pleasure was all mine, I enjoyed it very much as I told you! "

thank you so much for commenting on my gallery! you have a really really nice start on the photoshop type coloring stuff, especially on coloring the skin ( i find that one of the hardest parts). you've done a really great job on everything
toodles
Kate

Marlies Peeters replies: "Thank you, I agree that coloring the skin is the hardest, because of its complexity."

love yer art...thanks for dropping by my fanart......and thanks for the tips on things...yours is, very, very, VERY..good...keep it up also...

Marlies Peeters replies: "Thank you Heather! "

Hey Noa, great to be able to check out your art anytime I want, it's always to nice to have someone to discuss digital painting with, thanx.

Marlies Peeters replies: "hehe, yeah well, that's a little easier than checking it up in the thread at the forum!"

In a way drawing female faces is easier, that's true, and you already seem quite adept at it. So I suggest you should just try a male face once. Give it a more square face, more chin (a dent in the chin will also help make it look more masculin), a more pronounced nose and straight eyebrows that are closer to the eyes. See what comes out.

BTW, if you want to get into contact with other dutch Elfwood artists, you may also want to check out DutchElfwood at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dutchelfwood and http://dutchelfwood.mine.nu. At the Yahoo group we recently had a discussion about the difference in difficulty in drawing male or female faces - some actually find drawing female faces more difficult

Marlies Peeters replies: "Thanks for the tips! And I heard of the Dutch Elfwood indeed, I'll check it out sometime, thanks."

Marlies! That photograph up there is extremely cool and als very unrecognisable. I think I already commented on most of your artwork, but I'll just say again that I still like it. Keep up the good work!

Marlies Peeters replies: "Yeah, I know, that picture is always confusing people!"

Guess what I found while wandering in the woods? *grin*
I probably told you a hundred times already, but I really admire your Photoshop skills (and the other drawings too!)

And when will I be seeing more of your work? (I know you're working on another piece...)

Marlies Peeters replies: "Thanks, Margriet! And I'm always working on another piece, just not finishing it.. "

Hey, cool stuff! When i was seven or eight i was copying anything out of comic books and sketching trees and cars whizzing past my roof perch. When i was fifteen, suffice to say that you're better than i was when i was fifteen.
I like your "water witch" rendition (photoshop or painter? I do everything in painter - until i get my new mac and get illustrator going, w00t!). Specifically, i like the eyes. I think that the eyes capture a lot in facial pics, i notice that you were disappointed with said eyes, but i think that you've got a good thing going (jeez, the horror or cross-eyed people from way back when). The lips look nice and textured too.
Gah, i've babbled far too much. So cool art and site. Ever considered drawing anime (again, the eye fascination).

Marlies Peeters replies: "Hey, thanks for your comment! The Water Sorceress pic is done mostly in Painter, I think.. I can't quite remember... Well, most of my stuff is at the moment, I use Photoshop more for touch-ups, resizing and the like. Anime? Well, I occasionally get bored of realism, and then I do some anime-ish stuff, but it's not that good really, I usually adapt a style to my own liking anyway. But you can check out http://www.theravensnest.biz/forum/album_personal.php?user_id=4 , that's another gallery of mine with some more recent work, and occasionally some anime might show up there too. "

I werkelijk minnaar uw werk. U bent mijn derde favoritakunstenaar op elfwood! En, daar als... VELE mensen in elfwood. Maar vijftien jaar.... Het VERBAZEN!