I have tried working on what both Erlik and rj001 suggested. This is how it came out. How does it look now? Have a feeling that maybe now if I do a thumb concentrating one two salient features to bottom left of the image, and post it to my gallery I will probably get more hits than anything else I have posted to the bryce gallery, and that includes the image that put me briefly in the bryce hot twenty. What do you reckon? I personally am still proud of the fact that "There was a time" made the chart, and this would tend to cheapen my reason for making images, but it is a fact

And be sure to type "Warning Nudity" in big red letters across the thumbnail pic. :^) BTW, is that Teletubbie Land just across the river? This would still be a great landscape, even without the nude figure. Very well done!

I think I am going to do it just to see if I am right. And from a female artist, and hetero at that.

Great lighting!

this is much better than the first one. I know I'm a nitpicker, but a volumetric light with rays showing through the trees would really be great here. This will probably be a platitude, but not only the things in the picture are important. Things that are not seen directly, like a possible tree outside the picture that would block the rays partially would also be important. And you would get a diagonal of light that would connect two lighted areas. Which might be good and then, might also not. I should try it to see. tjohn, Teletubbies? :-D

Wellll, with a nudity warning, and the title of "Communing with Nature"... you should get a lot of hits....

glad we could help, i feel this whole 'nudity' issue is a bit of a problem, insofar as we come up with images and then think, okay where to put some breasts so that it'll get looked at. but if we are true 'artists' then that shouldnt be the case, just go for the image. i have done enough 'life classes' in my time to - get over it - maybe there should be a small movement to put some 'real' nudes in our work. i have painted (old technology, involves a stick and some pigment) many interesting nudes of older people - old skin with a persons life showing in their face, scars and wrinkles is a real challenge, although my favourite was a preganant woman which i found an exciting piece of work. oops have rambled on a bit - sorry. just go for the image.

I started off with the girl in the shadow, just barely there (deliberate pun) and concentrated on the landscape. It was only after I changed the light that I wondered if the bryce gallery did have the same hangups as the poser one as far as t&a were concerned. I think I will win that bet, so far 156 hits, 3 rankings and 5 comments...after only 24 hours. Point made! "Rainbow Warrior" (not the one I mentioned above that was a poser image) featured briefly in the hot 20 for some reason, yet only had 224 viewings. It was meant to be thought provoking. The girl was an integral part of this scene as I envisaged it, but wasn't meant to be the focal point.

Lovely scene chohole, is that a wolf behind the tree, waiting to swoop down on the rabbits? rj001, the main problem I have with nudity is that the people (primarily women) are so perfect, and as you and chohole point out, nudity is used to get people to look at images. So what would happen if we started using naked people with all their imperfections? Flabby waists, droopy parts, wrinkles, scars, non-caucasian? Would anyone look? Would anyone like it? Lin

Well Lin i guess the answer is to start posting a few and we'll see, i'll start working on a 'real nude' this weekend.....watch this space.

Woohoo! Lin

I actually made a fat fortyish faerie and posted it in the Faeriewylde site. I got some very positive comments on it. They reckoned it was a refreshing change to see a real woman faerie. I am now working on a pregnant one. And doing it in Bryce this time. I had almost finished it when I lost the file, so have had to start again. And Lin that is meant to be a fox, we don't get wolves in the UK, only foxes. Its made from the poser cat using "cat-o-nine-lives" morphs.

It's hard to tell the color of his coat in the shadows. I'm glad you included him in the scene. A pregnant fairy? So they don't spring from flower buds? :) Post it here when you get it done, I'd like to see it. Lin