amazingly good

Magnificent! Wow!

Amazing!

Just to let you know you have been featured here [link]
Hope you like it...

It feels weird seeing this piece and the reference photo the same day I discovered a deviation about how to spot a faker
I'm not saying you're a faker!!! It's just weird timing, it feels, to just discover this now.

In that "How to Spot a Faker" deviation it explains that you can tell an image was copied from a reference photo, rather than painted from one, if the two images, when layered over each other, match exactly. If they match exactly, that "painting" was actually just achieved using photoshop effects and smudging.
She goes on to say that even the greatest artists never copy art exactly. There will always be differences between the photo and the drawing, even if they are extremely subtle.

Then she goes further and gets to my favorite part as it relates to this piece: it says the subtle differences between the reference photo and the drawing or painting that the artist trying to replicate the photo makes are the result the artist's perspective! And that that's what makes it art! Profound!

This piece is absolutely amazing, but from the moment I first looked at it, something about her body just looked slightly off to me. Not that I'm really in a good position to judge or anything :. But it set me off on a long path to figure out why... I spent a very long time looking at this, analyzing the lines and curves, and comparing them to the ones in the reference photo, trying to figure out just what made this look slightly off to me. After lots of looking, and of course some shifting of the scrollbars in the separate tabs so the two images would line up as closely as easily possible, I found it. You made her thinner! That's what happened!

I notice it mainly in her left upper arm. I see it in the slight difference in shape of her left lower arm. Back on her upper arm, I even see it in the little piece of muscle that goes from the art to the back behind the underarm. But of course, the place where it's most noticeable that you made her thinner was the bottom. You gave her less booty .

I spent a lot of time studying the sideways arc shape made from the top half of her left upper arm, and running all the way down to her hip and out of the picture ( ), trying to find just where the shape was most different. What made your drawing look different. Comparing the two pictures, the biggest difference is the hip. You did what most women wish you could do for them too and made hips a bit less wide. The fact that it looks like you did that changed her waist-to-hip ratio, and made her look a little more stocky... but you didn't make her any bigger! Only smaller, but the change in proportion made it look like she got a little bigger in the waist when combined with other subtle differences. It looked at first like you took a tiny bit from her hip and put it on her waist, but you didn't Maybe also that fold in her skin is just slightly too long?

Anyway, bringing this back to the deviation about How to Spot a Faker, When you put the your reference over your drawing, they sure don't match, and that is a beautiful thing!

I really hope you don't take this as some mean critique from a crappy artist, and see me as a nasty troll. I also hope the comment isn't tl;dr for you. I typed all that just in case you wanted to hear my story. I liked this picture, and that's why I spent such a long long time looking at it and comparing!

Also, I wanted to look up "Body Worlds" because of your description! I would really like to go to that exhibit! It sounds awesome, but it's not currently in my state... and I don't think mine's the next stop in it's trip at the end of the week either.