Camouflage

Thank you Craig, it takes a rare person to see past the fuzzies :)

Last night, after 5 hours of processing and viewing at 300% to make sure it still looked good, didn’t have any jaggies etc., I nearly died when I saw how it uploaded (at half-past midnight with a 9-5 job the next day). I pride myself on doing a professional job and this doesn’t look professional at all.

Thanks for the advice. I can’t do much about it until this evening, unfortunately. I will try some different resolutions tonight, perhaps in the medium-sized format, do some more research into Photoshop image resizing and maybe try another image.

I’m lovin’ the silhouette in the background, look forward too seeing more :)

Well, have tried for hours, but JPEG compression is just awful.

Here is a better preview:

I think this is fantastic… gr8 work…

Pehpsi – thank you! Would you believe that I had more trouble drawing the rabbit than the flowers? The flowers were a breeze but the bunny took a lot of coaxing and working to get the right shape. I paid a visit to your portfolio yesterday and WOW, nice pictures. You’ve got a knack for landscapes, I must say.

Nicole – thank you for your comment. I love your portraits, they have a really delicate quality about them.

Thanks :)

Yeah this preview looks much better..

I stopped uploading my work as JPG’s and went for PNG files instead. This meant i had to re-upload about 70 shots at the time!

That looks heaps better Evangeline!! Was your first one uploaded as a png? I notice RB made it a Jpg is all.

Pehpsi … I am thinking of doing that too!! I try so hard to do all my editing in one go and save the Jpg as high quality as possible, but I do notice a lot more noise in them on the bubble as compared to them on my puter. Doesn’t the Bubble change them to Jpg though?

Hi Pehpsi and Craig!

Yep, all my images are uploaded as PNGs, since they aren’t as lossy as JPEGs. But the RB algorithm that compresses the images to make previews and thumbnails (as JPEGs) does not seem to like my pictures :p I think because they have large swatches of the same colour.

Que sera sera. Perhaps one day we will have the option to upload our own preview images (fingers crossed!).

this is really gorgeous, LOVE IT!!!

Yeah Illustration friday, i noticed the theme too.
Never got the chance to do it every time =P , This really works with the theme tho.

Hiya kookylane, thank you for your comments! Each comment I get is like a ray of sunshine covered in chocolate with a floppy panda centre i.e. they make me very, very happy :)

Illustration Friday is pretty awesome, I reckon. Very supportive and friendly community. Their blog is also great for ideas and introducing you to new artists. It’s nice to work on the same theme as so many people and to see all the variations.

I’ve only started doing IF again but it is hard to do it every week. I’ll keep an eye out for you on IF – hope to see you there soon!

You know the original is crisper than the redbub version but i wouldn`t say better…

I think the jpeg compression has given the flowers a cool textured look….nice work!

Thanks dude!

But I like the crispiness! (As a short-sighted person, I’m biased and blurry = bad :) Still, it’s good to know it does not look like a total disaster with the compression.

When you’ve been working on a piece for 10 hours your judgement tends to wander …

Made a small amendment and took my signature out of the bottom RH corner. When the image is made into cards the sides are cropped and the cropped image had a partial of the signature on it.

This is GREAT!!! :)

Thanks Belinda!

BTW, checked out your portoflio AND your Mum’s AND your Dad’s. They’re all different but all great. IT’S ALMOST CRIMINAL for one family to have so much talent! ^_

Hi Evangeline, I love this picture. You have done a wonderful job. Pictures of rabbits always remind me of Watership Down. I cried so much seeing the movie as a kid! :D

hi E. I may be viewing an image long since past its blurriness phase, or there is something wrong with ME-but these images both look great. I guess I need to output some images of my own to real get it…

I love the poppies..and you DREW that bunny? you didn’t get a bunny pic and sihouette it?! What a hard worker you are!

and Kitsu-I cried at Watership down too—and I thought I that was a secret over emotional me that no one else felt! thank god, I’m not alooonnnnee!

Hiya Kitsumma, I don’t remember the movie, but I love the Bright Eyes song by Art Garfunkel. The book still made me cry.

Hi sunset, and thank you. I’ve been staring at this picture for hours while drawing it so perhaps it’s me being hyper-critical as well. I did draw the bunny, and he was a hard critter to draw too! Especially in the face. I had one version which looked more realistic with his nose holes etc., but when I put the background shadows layer on it didn’t look so good, back to the drawing board, yada yada …

I’m a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get it right sooner, since my brother has a pet rabbit (named Mao), and I see him every day!

Good to see you on the front page :)

Woohoo!

Now the paranoia sets in and I wonder if I should re-work it for the 4568th time. Argh! Mustn’t … look …

cool, love the colours

This is absolutely spectacular!!!!!

Thanks nsoup and Whirligig! The best part about these comments is being able to follow everyone else’s links back and looking at their work too :)

Loved it so much I had to buy one!

Jo – today, you are my HERO. Thanks babe!

Love it!! – great colours and love the intricate flowers… its a great style!

that does look pretty cool hon :)

even if it is a bit mangled. argh.

I feel for you hun, my patterns look pretty horrible on RB because of the crappy quality. I just have to trust that people will be able to see bast that fuzziness.

It’s no problem with this image, as it’s bold, bright and all the colours compliment each other perfectly! Good job!

Cool design! Very effective

Lovely colours! Nice one

Love the design, the colors make it sing. Rabbits can be hard to draw, but I think you did great. I love what you did with this
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I have two rabbits at my house and I can’t get them to slow down for a photos shoot

This is a beautiful piece. I love the red flowers and the grays. Your flowers are really neat looking.

very , very nice .

Hi Evangeline, what an attractive piece of art. Your colour scheme is fantastic, I think this would be great as a huge wall hanging!!!

Wow! I love this piece! – I logged on to a page full of images and this just jumped out at me.

It just works so well – great work.

Hey! I just spotted this on the wall of a local business…. Pretty cool to see Redbubble art out in the public :)

This is great work !

great concept and well put together!best regards

Love your work!

beautiful love the subtle silouhette of a rabbit

just stunning, so simple but yet so complex

Imaginative work!

Awesome job, well Done!

Love this! So cool. You have a great style!

This is so beautiful, it’s mind blowing! You are so talented! xx Rach

I love this and am going to buy a framed print as soon as I can…. do you think that it will look Ok with the bright white backing and a mocha frame?

Beautiful.

Thank you, Sarina, enjoy your purchase, and I hope it brightens up your day when you see it – now you have me wondering which room it’s going to in? ;)

Helen, thanks for the comment and Bubmail, my dear. You are lovely :)

This is lovely!

This is just awesome! Love the style, love the tight color usage. Completely excellent all around!

Beautiful effect!

lovely

‘Camouflage’ is up in my bedroom, looking fabulous! Now I just need to work out how to upload a photo so you can check it out…..

Lovely artwork! Almost like a 3D…I wonder how/what program you use or make this art with??

This is lovely

Very nice composition :-)

This would look stunning as a ginormus piece if art on the wall, this is a great piece of art!

I thought I’d already commented on this in my initial “omg RB is rad” comment frenzy, but I haven’t!
I adore poppies, and I love the colours!

I hope you would add some to the Flower Power Project 2008! Please, this would add depth to the project! Remember, I will beg! We are going to get beat by a bunch of school kids! LOL

Fantastic work. Very beautiful

wow this is really pretty,hope you worked out all your jaggy problems 6 months ago, I get this sometimes now. annoying!

A really effective design, and great to hear you worked everything out to get it looking so good

This is beautiful work!

This is such a beautiful piece of work!!
You are extremely talented.

This is so beautiful!

I love your work, particularly this one. Have you ever illustrated a children’s storybook?

Nice painting

lurve it :)

great colours great flow
thanks

marvellous work, love it!

absolutely stunning work evangeline…. beautiful

Very Clever!

adorable!

this is beautiful.Reminds me of somebody :-)

Ever so beautiful!!! Elenne

Great color choices in this one.

I love this work- very nice xx

i love the colour and back , nice art

I love this! Great colors and unique – perfect :)

Fantastic – what a wonderful image.

lovely work mq

excellent work well done