"The God-King" by Norma Peters

*second comment eating of a Pot-Noodle* She's not wrong, it's a crackin picture alright. The frame alone should give you a mods let alone the chap inside it... now, where's that brown sauce...?Haha, thank you, Andy.

How you don't get Mod's choice on images like these I'll never understand. This is such a beautiful picture! He looks so very amazingly real! That's all I can say, it's such a BEAUTIFUL work! *first comment dance*Thank you so much for your confidence in my work. I truly appreciate it, and I'm glad you like the picture. Mods' choices are sometimes a thing of mystery and something which we mere mortals are not meant to understand.

Oh, another wonderful portrait in a great decorated frame! Beautiful face, and so very masterfully painted... Strangely, he looks somewhat gypsy-like to me. I stared for long time at the details: emerald eyes so alive that one’s almost expecting them to blink, so very naturally-looking eyebrows, so accurately drawn ears... The hair, the jewelry and the clothing are great, as always. Great portrait.
Your talent keeps amaze me. It’s not often when I stumble upon an artwork of an artist of such a high skills as yours, but when I do I often find that faces on the portraits are either unnaturally beautiful and flawless, or on the contrary too overloaded with emotions and showing a bit too much of attitude, which, again, makes them look unnatural. Your portraits always look like a beautiful real life people might look... only they have this magical light in their eyesWhat a lovely compliment. A perfect face would be boring, I'm sure. It's the little "flaws" and idiosyncracies of features that make faces fascinating to me. Thank you so much.

The texturising of the skin here is wonderful. His eyes are so striking, and such a lovely green. Not only the eyes are beautiful, but the sculpted brows - which are always very important, I think.

For some reason I remembered this picture differently from Deviantart? I have to go have a look at the other one, now!Thanks - I'm glad you like him.

I love it.
Just curious Ms. Norma- - - How long did it take? o.O
I try using open canvas to do art, and it takes hours and it still looks awful! (Pencils forever!)
It's really great! I can't wait for your next one! ^^Thank you, Natalie. It's difficult to say how long this picture took to finish. At one time I would sit down, start a picture, and work on it non-stop until it was finished. Nowadays, I have so many other interests that I do a bit now and then, and some days nothing at all, just pick away at it. I think, though, that the average picture, from start to finish, probably takes about eight hours, total work. That's a wild guess.

I know its a guy but it looks like a girl whats up?Personal choice in designing this character is what's up. I wanted him to look androgynous.

Hey,he looks like...Rufus Sewell,but with those hair?Maybe he borrowed it from Orlando Bloom ^______^Hehe, I actually didn't pattern him off anyone in particular, but similarities accidentaly crop up.

Ehm,it's me again!I just want to say that this guy look not only like Rufus Sewell,but also like Naveen Andrews who is starring as Sayid in "Lost".How odd and interesting that you should say that. When I designed this character, I tried to give him just a bit of Naveem Andrews' look without making it too obvious.