This is a great idea, @reinhard-schmid. I always thought it was so people wouldn't have to have a large image to load, I never thought about people taking it. However, I am of the school that if someone want's to take your stuff it's a compliment because, hey, they must love it to use it, right?
I should follow suit maybe when I finish my Singularity bot with Dog, I'll save sections really large. You are always inspiring me on here.
Isn't it funny on here too, I never really get or understand what drives upvotes. I meant I just do the same thing all the time as far as commenting and posting but sometimes I've got over 50 sbd and other days it'll be $1, it's a funny old world isn't it? But, I've earned so much here in the sense of finding people, like you, who are so inspiring and am feeling a part of an artist community for the first time in a long time. This is the prefect environment for a self confessed introvert artists.
Not sure why i just rambled on here about that, but well, I just feel inspired to chat with other artists on here. :)
Now about your closeups...breath taking. The torn paper hand is genius, the effect of the paper with the touched of light and the soft gentle brushwork on her face, I love that sort of touch. You can tell when an artist is truly in love with their canvas. Well done, per usual.
You write some of the best comments and I don't know, what impresses and inspires me more... your visual art or your writing!
Clicked on every picture in your last post, but so far none of them enlarged... can't wait to see the big close ups.
Hahaha.. yes, the upvotes are quite mysterious and I certainly haven't figured out the secret. Sometimes a simple picture on bescouted is more successful than something I put together with a lot of work, pictures reworked to fit and lots of text (by my standards).
Thing is, as artists, we want to create and in a way, a post is also a creation, a little bit, as if we were painting something. And as artists, of course we crave attention... somehow one thinks a bigger effort deserves more of that, but then again, maybe the effort was already made with the artwork the post is about..
And I agree with you, a big part of the reward here is the "family", other artists we come to know and with whom we share our ideas or even just chat a bit. Makes us feel less alone in our ivory towers ;-)