Graphic of myself

Wow, it's been a long time since my last graphic, more than 2 weeks! I just kinda got tired of it. But yesterday I was bored and made this:

You can click to enlarge, but it doesn't look as good when it's big.

What do you think?

Maria/mgirl07

New graphic

Yeah, the title says it all. I've made a new graphic and I'm really proud of it!

I have used a reference image that I really like, I'm in love with that dress!
And I've just realized that I haven't posted any Stardoll graphic on this blog before, so to compare, here is my previous one:

I have improved quite much, haven't I?

Maria/mgirl07

Behind the clouds, the sun is shining...

Finally I've thought of a good title for a graphic post! :)

Well, I haven't been making that many graphics recently as I was on a class trip, but I made this on the way back in the bus (driving for 10 hours can be quite boring, you know).

The main focus is the rays of sunlight, because I wanted to try to do a graphic with a different sort of lighting. The original photo was of me holding a dandelion, I'm too lazy to find it, but it's quite similar to this graphic.

This is the original version:

I decided it was too choppy so I tried to blur it:

I think I blurred it too much this time! I like that it underlines that the sunshine on the dandelion is the focal point. but the rest is too blurry.

Which version do you like better?

Oh, and it reminds me of this song from my favorite movie:

:D

Maria/mgirl07

New writer!

Hi, I am mgirl07. I should have started writing here before, but there were problems with adding me to the blog because my e-mail didn't show up in the message I sent and stuff. Well, it's fixed now.

First of all I would like to say that it's a great honour for me to write for this amazing blog that I check every day! My graphics may not be that good, but I keep improving all the time and I hope that you, the readers, can see that!

My name is Maria, I come from Russia and live in Denmark. I have been making graphics since April. My first graphic looked like this:

The proportions look so weird because I made it out of a quite old and badly made photo of myself (and my meDoll's face of course). So when I speak about how horrible it is I don't mean the pose but all the rest.

To compare, here's my most recent graphic.

It looks a bit odd because I have overdone the shading on the cheekbone. Should have used one layer of shading instead of two. And the hair looks sort of odd on this one.
It's made out of a drawing of my mom, which looks like this:

I hope I didn't bore you to death with this post! :) I promise that the next ones won't be this long!
Maria/mgirl07