great, very well done pic!

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Excellent concept... Superb Lighting......

Nice! Great contrast... and lighting ofcourse!

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great work.

It seems an odd thing to say, but... this looks like it was rendered. It's the smoothness of the mask, it looks like 3d modeling to me, it's quite bizzare.

The rose petals under the eye holes work well, especially on the left of the picture, it looks like it has a gaze...

Oddly, I feel like this is kinda a positive image. The petals and the whiteness make me thing of wedding and love, and as I dislike those white face masks it feels like it's talking about such things destroying the masks we wear... it's a scary thing to loose them but seeing them apart from what we really are shows them for what they really are. I'm fairly sure that's not what you intended, but hey ^_^

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LOL!!! Yeah, I don't thing you could be more 180 than my intent... but hey... that is excellent!!! That is what I love about art and exactly what I try to do... I want the viewer to feel. What they feel is up to them... ya know?

Thanks for your thoughts... People say all the time my stuff looks rendered. I think I have some interesting lighting techniques (what they are I have no clue) that generate this look. I have been hearing this for a while now. I think it's sort of cool and always take it as a compliment. Since my stuff is pretty conceptual, I think it looking rendered sort of helps it fit...

Thanks Katy... Dave

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this is crazy dave.....I am sitting here looking at this and I have no idea why, but I swear my monitor just went into total 3-d mode. There is soooo much depth in this, it's scary. It is literally jumping out at me. Fantastic

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Hehe. I'm thinking the intent is having the mask represent the person, they they're being shattered. It is still an unsettling image, but, those masks are scary. So it's sort of both things at one time. Getting free of your masks is a good thing, but it's still painful and frightening.

I wonder what it is that makes it look rendered... On this, I think it's the nose that made me think it. The grey underneath it looks like it's texture map, and everything is so smooth and flawless...

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"It's the best possible time to be alive; When everything you thought you knew is wrong."
Valentine Coverly, 'Arcadia'

Thanks man... I have to say I am proud of this one... This is actually a product of DA. Being a bit older than the normal crowd here I read journals and look at the younger peoples art. A vast majority of them have to do with love, pain of a new relationship. As you get a bit older you forget about this stuff.

DA has reminded me of it... Cool feelings. I remembered the first time a girl reached out and held my hand (the rose) and then when she left (the mask). Lots of fun now, but not then... LOL

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I love the red against the white. It's so gorgeously painful, and it strikes me. Great job, you put pain beautifully.

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