Which is better? And Why?

[Doreen Peri]

#1



#2



#3

[judih]

i chose #1 cause i see the face as a 'daylight' face.
love this banner.
it's open, it's private, it's willing to speak to me, it's harboring issues that need to be expressed, it's waiting for an ear.

[mousey1]

I really like this!!!!

Who did yon, I mean, above yon banner?

I voted number 2, for I love the moon.

[oneeyeddog333]

all three are good i chose 2 no special reason

[Sober Duck]

I have to go with the majority.
For me #2 will do.
The darkness gives balance.

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks, all, for taking the time to look and for your votes!

It was just one of those times when I couldn't decide which worked best.

I'm leaning toward #2, myself, because I think the darkness outside the window adds balance to the piece, as the SoberOne said.

Yes, mousey1, I created this. People tell me nobody's interested in "sausage-making" but since I'm *always* interested in how someone created something, I'll explain anyway.

I started with a photo of my daughter. She's 12 but I didn't want her to look that young, so I used some Photoshop filters to alter the face to make her look older. Then I removed the entire background, except for the window, including a lot of her own hair and drew the hair myself, using the brush tool and other Photoshop tools. I also drew in the eyes. I found a photograph I took of a tree and used resized and cropped it to fit in the panes of the windows. I drew in the sun (or moon in #2), filled it with a yellow, using multiply. Once I was satisfied with the face and window, I flattened the image and applied more effects to the image as a whole, to make it look like a drawing, plus used the line tool to draw to highlight her glasses and other areas which I wanted to accentuate.

That's it. Thanks again, everybody.

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks, all, for taking the time to look and for your votes!

It was just one of those times when I couldn't decide which worked best.

I'm leaning toward #2, myself, because I think the darkness outside the window adds balance to the piece, as the SoberOne said.

Yes, mousey1, I created this. People tell me nobody's interested in "sausage-making" but since I'm *always* interested in how someone created something, I'll explain anyway.

I started with a photo of my daughter. She's 12 but I didn't want her to look that young, so I used some Photoshop filters to alter the face to make her look older. Then I removed the entire background, except for the window, including a lot of her own hair and drew the hair myself, using the brush tool and other Photoshop tools. I found a photograph I took of a tree and used resized and cropped it to fit in the panes of the windows. I drew in the sun (or moon in #2), filled it with a yellow, using multiply. Once I was satisfied with the face and window, I flattened the image and applied more effects to the image as a whole, to make it look like a drawing, plus used the line tool to draw to highlight her glasses and other areas which I wanted to accentuate.

That's it. Thanks again, everybody.

[Artguy]

#3 the left side of the work blank without prejudice....you fill in the blank...

[Traveller13]

I prefer #2, don't ask why

[e_dog]

i say 1 and 2 are equally good; or rather they are companion pieces in a necessarily linked series, much like night and day in the world more generally.