Um, first of all, I'd advise to get a scan of this up. I absolutely abhor photos of drawings, unless the size makes it completely impossible for it to be scanned.

With that out of the way, very good work. The water came out mostly believable and natural, though my initial impression was that it's on sand - as in: the oncoming wave marks the water's edge, while the surfers are standing on sand, in very shallow water. Then, of course, I've noticed the ground level is far lower, and that they're actually halfway up to their knees in water...

(I cannot imagine how I could have explained this even worse, I barely understand what I've written, and I know my own point, so if you actually understood even a part of this, you deserve a prize)

...so I suppose my gripe with this would be that the white lines on the water (I know, foam, or whatever the english word for this is) are too wide and intense, having a... hm, solid? feel to them. This is of course a subjective view, maybe I'm one of a thousand people who'd see it that way, but, well, yeah.

I like the waves and the figure in the distance a lot though, that looks almost as if it were a photo, good work.

The surfers are both well done, though for some reason they don't feel like the main focus of the pic to me, quite possibly because of you saying the water was the original subject... don't know.

Anyway. All in all a professional looking piece, nothing comes off as tacked on, unplanned or not thought through (whether that's actually the case is a different matter, I guess, but that don't enter into it), and despite my petty gripes I like it a lot.

peace

Such is the luck of trying to put my art in the public: it's in a frame in a gallery, I think. I haven't seen it in months. And it's my experience that scans do not reproduce well on paper. Photographs reproduce much better. This was me anticipating that someone might actually want a print of it...

As for the foam in the water, at the time I wanted to keep the style of drawing consistent throughout the piece. Foam (which is the correct word, by the way) would have to be depicted using a considerable amount of stippling, and I didn't want it to clash with the crosshatching of the majority of the image. That was a style issue that was apparently important to me at the time.

Of course, you and I may also have drastically different experience with what ocean water looks like. I have never seen a northern shore sea surf in Poland, so I can't say if it looks similar to eastern shore ocean surf in Florida.

Ultimately, not only is it what lies in front of us that may be different, but our individual interpretations of what should be stressed or hidden in our depictions in art.

I very much appreciate the time you took to make your comments. Thank you for coming by my gallery.

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Huh. Good point. I did have the 'local' sea shore in mind. Must travel more. Or get a catalog or something.

Foam in crosshatch. Yeah, hadn't thought that through either. Clearly I've had thought-free day while writing that.

peace

ps. actually, when viewed with the lower ~10% hidden, the water looks just right. The white stripe seems to be throwing off my view.

the cross hatching seems to go against what you would typically expect from a scene like this therefore it makes it surprising and somehows adds a tension to the piece!

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Sweet! I'm so glad you like it!

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no problem!

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