I see what you mean. If you want a more realistic pic the string should at some point disappear completely as it does when looking at a real kite flying image. Not sure how to make a better curved line in ZBrush, if you want a 'modern primitive painting' look I'd leave it like this. with just a little cleanup around the string. I like the overall look of the pic, nice texture.

98Bones, was thinking....(UNUSAL FOR ME)....but, if I do not use a primative sphere3d, and maybe make the ball of string out of our famous zsphere, with a string leading out towards the kite, it can that way get smaller and smaller then a Draw Size of 1. Have never tried this with a zsphere, and have never tried to colorize on it too, because my other thought is it would be its brightest (string) closer to the ball of string, and get grayer as it extends out. But the colorizing may be unnecessary, as the string would become so extremely small. I tried working and fixing that connection to the string area, that I lost all the detail you could see in the hand wrapped ball of string. May or may not up date. Thanks for responding. I do want to get this painting right, as it is for my 6 year old nephew. LOL maybe one day I will ask to have him once a week for about 2 hours and teach him ZB. But we will see :)

thats one very nice background! as for the string you might want to make use of the fabulous Digits zifwormscript available here: http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=013561 be sure that the ball and kite are at different z-depths. load the script. activate "zline", "smooth" and "taper" and increase the taper negative increments in the slider, so the end of the string gets noticeably smaller. press "get stroke" and at reduced draw size simply paint a stroke via the simple brush starting from the ball and ending at the kite. press "create mesh" and a string of zspheres will be created along the stroke you just made. use the shortcut "a" to see it in sin-preview. maybe you will have to turn cskin off in tool>inventory. play with density there, too. all this shouldnt take more than 30 seconds. if you have created it on a layer of its own, coloring is done in another second via simple brush rgb-on only :)

Thanks Juan, I will look at this. I have so many scripts, that I have not really gotten to digits. As far as layers, basically it is one layer, I only used other layers for creating 3d things, like the fingers, ball of string, shoes, kite, and birds. So on the single layer, I just placed these in the place I wanted, and they were already colorized (hm, except for the stars on the kite, which I just made an alpha out of a tool for, and painted on with simple brush and drag rec. That string was just free hand until started to try to make it look better. Was using 3d paint brush towards ball, but even that did not pass mustard. LOL I tried the Zifs, and did not have to load the pic and place objects again, as I saw it was not what I was looking for. Now in the painting hes leaving but never gone, I did use layers and merge. It should not be hard to recollect what I did. Thanks will give her a whirl. Working on my WIP And thank you for the background compliment. It took me a while to figure out about shorelines and sand, but I think I have it to where I am happy with it too. Just the damned string LOL who would have figured such a small thing could do this LMAO Mandy

good image, maybe try smudge the kyte string into the background? Or make it black...anna xxx

I wouldn't change a thing...Im not an expert on art...I like what I like, and I create pictures of what I like. I like this. It has a hand painted feel...simplistic, even semi-abstract. But it feels right. I would hang this picture in my home. Excellent work.

This looks great just the way it is!! Keep up the awesome job!!