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[Pixey]

Many thanks @manc, Helen, Leif, @blackpenney, @barbieq, @sargon and @chrisco for saying such nice things about the hearts. Good job you liked them, as they were for you

I had trouble with the tiny base moons underneath and try as I might, I couldn't get them to look as good as Helen's glowing bases in her apples image. I'll check back with her upon my return about how to improve on them for the future.

Toodle-pip for now

[barbieq25]

Have a great time & see you when you get back

[heat stroke]

Great picture! The hearts are very well done!

[Dug]

Great gallery! Nice variety ,I like it all but the eye is my favourite.

[Pixey]

Thanks so much Dug and welcome to PDN Fans.

Sorry for the long silence - but life just got the better of my time and I could not do much PDN. But ....... as soon as I got home I got stuck in and did my first fluffy animal Of course - it's a cat!

So sad to hear about Oma's hubby and I hope she will be back soon.

Hope too that Welshy is doing OK.

Congrats to you all for the great work on the banners and I've done a quick look at all the latest works - which are amazing, as usual.

Hope everyone has a Happy Easter next weekend ;D

[Helen]

Oh the kitty is so precious! I want to hug the daylights out of it. It's soo cute. I love it!

[lancemcknight]

Oh! Lance likes this a lot!

[Leif]

He, he. Cute cat.

[blackpenny]

That cat is adorable! ;D I'm sure I've seen that same expression on my cat's face.

Good to have you back Pixey!

[heat stroke]

WOW! Very very well done!

[barbieq25]

What a fabulous job you did with the kitty! My only critique is the spots. They need to line up as close as possible tot he whiskers or leave them out. The kitty is so cute with an adorable expression on its face. Those eyes are amazing. They have the perfect highlights & colour. The way you did the stripes on the little kitty's front legs & the pads on its tiny paws is spot on. Love the individual hairs esp in the ears. Fantastic work!

It is great to have you back! I was just wondering last night how long it has been since you went away & that you must be back shortly & here you are.

[Pixey]

Thank you so much Helen, Lance, Leif, Blackpenny, Heatstroke and Barbieq for your kind comments on Fluffy.

I nearly mentioned, when I posted Fluffy, that the one error I was concerned about, were the spots. I tried to go back to blur them, but could not for the life of me find the layer. Anyway, at least I knew it was a boo-boo ;D

[barbieq25]

Happens to me too. Usually find out that I merged the offending layer. Nevermind, as you say & then there is always the learning process too.

You did a fantastic job on it & I'd be over the moon if I did something as good as that one.

[chrisco97]

The fluffy cat is amazing! I love it!

[barbieq25]

I just had to stop by & tell you how much I love your new sig. So beautiful & very clever!

Fluffy looks fantastic as an avvie too! Well done!

[AFG]

Fluffy looks great with a fantastic expression ;D two suggestions I would make are the whiskers should be thinner and more delicate ( I'm thinking you might have been worried they would not show if you made them thinner), and the eyes should always have their own highlights, it's always tempting to use the same eye/highlights and change the position ( I'm guilty of having done it in the past) but the majority of the time the highlights will oppose each other doing that, but the actual style of the eye is great ;D

[Pixey]

Thank you so much Barbieq and AFG.

@barbieq - I'm so glad you noticed my new signature. Thank you:) It was pure murder to get it finished as last w/e, whilst perusing websites for tutorials, I was rewarded with the worst virus - ever! It told me my hard drive had crashed. I was very suspicious and googled only to find it was a trojan. As Dell were closed on the w/e I went to bleeping.com and found the solution. Or so I thought! My computer was acting really oddly, so did get onto Dell who found a few pieces of the virus still lurking. But, I continued to have trouble and I even had to un-install Paint (groan) and then start all over again. Double-groan as I then had to upload all the plug-ins. Still wasn't working properly until yesterday. I finally tried running the "unhide" patch for folders, which had all become hidden & BINGO ....... I was then able to get my jolly bleeping computer back again I only hope those people who make these viruses get run over by a truck ...... or worse!

AFG - how lovely to hear from you and thanks so much for the tips. You know I did actually do the highlights separately on Fluffy but think I did them too 'alike'. Next time I'll try to make them more apart from each other. Great point on the whiskers. I will be doing another toody-tat I'm sure. I did make an error with the whisker spots, but couldn't find the layer again (I had over a 100 layers by the end) in order to blur them and move them to the end of the whiskers

Hope everyone had a great Easter. I've not eaten my egg yet - will do so today

[barbieq25]

Seems like a few people I know are having problems with their pc. Just tonight I was at my brother's house & he tried to copy files to a USB stick from a SD card for my sister. He will take the pc into the shop because he has tried almost everything.

I will get a new one shortly. I have all the plugins backed up to an external HDD so it should not take forever to get PDN back up & running.

Hope your pc behaves

[heat stroke]

I really like your new sig as well! Sorry about your virus troubles.

[Helen]

LOVE your new sig and avvie combo! The sig is so glossy.

[Pixey]

Many thanks Heatstroke and Helen for noticing my sig and avvie - much appreciated.

I'd just like to say that I won't be on here for a while, as I have a lot going on at the moment - least of which is to get a new computer asap. I will try to keep in touch via D.A. when I can.
Keep up the great art work everyone

[barbieq25]

Pixey we will miss you very much but we will be here when you return. Hope you get a nice new pc