Well done. Amazing picture.

Beautiful. Just Beautiful

Incredible

Holy crap this is really awesome, especially the highlights

I've felt that way sometimes, but I've never indulged myself on it however. Image looks great. ^^

From the thumbnail, I thought it was a photo. lol

Amazingly well done!

That happens to me all the time.

And this painting, wow. It has great power.

This is gorgeous!!
Your light and colors are impressionistic in their spot-on rendering, while the expression gives it another life of its own. I love the way she is looking down, rather than at the viewer, this is portraiture taken to higher artistic degree.

love the impressionist technique and your light skills are obviously amazing

it is breath taking =)

Your work is so inspiring! Please, keep it up!

absolutely beautiful, lovely, inspirational work. I'm sure she'll appreciate the kindness ♥.

This is amazing! I'd love to have a moment like that, good thing you were brave and took the photo, this came out beautifully! And I'm sure she'll absolutely adore it.

NICE i love the intense lighting of the scene plus the brush strokes give it an energy not found if it was just a photo. It really gives life to this old lady at the coffee shop nice job!

Its great to see this sort of content on FA

Oh wow. <3 I enjoy this for a great many reasons.

i want to see her baby

This is really charming. The glow is perfect. Such an awesome job capturing the ambiance.

Excellent handling of lighting—and everything really!

Beautiful portrait! She has such an amazing smile.

I know people who have that experience all the time. It's quite common among experienced artists, actually.

fantastic :D

i love the marks >w<

Oh my god!

Very nice!

wow that is absolutely amazing

she a photogenic woman

this is truly beautiful

Incredimazingtasticlievable!

heh, I've never been brave enough to just ask, but I do have a lot of sneaky photos people didn't know I was taking :P

=0 its really colorful, and for some reason it bring memories of my childhood :]

oh wow amazing!

WOW.

This picture came out so well, it was great watching you do it :)

I wish I could pluck up the courage to photograph the things and people that I see in daily life... props to you :)

This is lovely!

You made the lighting your bitch. Artists, even artists who work in realism, always jazz up the lighting so the image feels off. The realism works, even in this chaotic style, because you went with how light actually looks most of the time: white. Wonderful job.

A testament to what you've done here:
When I look at this painting, I can imagine myself there immediately. There is no imagination period. I can feel the warmth of the moment, as if I'm laughing with the woman.

It sounds like flattery, but you've captured this perfect mix of qualities so that really happened.

yeah! what he said!

This is a really badass picture. I hope that she really enjoys it if she sees it. Good job!!

Not adding this image to your favorites qualifies as a hate crime.

Print a picture of these comments so she can see how much we love how this came out.

Holy fuck, beautiful gesture painting which really has a point of focus. You've kept the life of this so beautifully without having overdone any element! EXCELLENT WORK!

This is truly incredible and has so much expression. Wow :)

Watching you doing this was unbelievable! I've never seen such an incredible skill

Wow! That IS some amazing painting! It's so hard to capture a moment with all it's details, but this does it perfectly!

i'm speechless with the quality and detail work o.o great work

Dat light. :D

I get that feeling all the time and I can't even doodle. So it's like an itch I can't scratch. :(

What's stopping you?

Impatience, mostly. I want to make unrealistic leaps of progress in a short amount of time, so I get frustrated when I spend hours working on a single ambitious picture only to have it not turn out how I want it to. I know I have to start with the basics, but those don't excite me enough to stay motivated. I want to pick up a pencil or paintbrush and make something amazing right now, but it seems I lack the focus and dedication required to hone my skills over time. It's the classic problem of wanting instant gratification and giving up when I don't get it.

Oh hey, that sounds familiar.

Have you ever seen the paintings of Jeffrey Jones? That man's work changed my life, and pursuing it beat the ADD out of me.

Do you mean these? I hadn't heard of him before his paintings do look incredible! How long did it take you to get to a point where you were really satisfied with your work?

Exactly those!

Haha, that question, in truth, is a cruel joke. I was more satisfied with my work years ago, before my tastes had gotten more picky. Now I'm never satisfied with my work, as my golden standards for illustration are literally the greatest illustrators on the planet. Have you noticed I rarely describe an image with, "I'm pretty satisfied/proud with how this turned out!"

That being said, I was first confident that I could succeed when I looked at Jeffrey Jones, realized he was one of the greatest illustrators who ever lived, and I knew how to technically recreate a painting. The only thing stopping me at that point was knowledge and/or experience, and I try not to look back to this day (still not established pro yet, of course).

Also, Jon Foster took seven years until after he graduated to make it in the industry, so that's good to know. :)

Ah, I suppose it's true then that we are our own worst critics! I think you have plenty to be proud of, but it's good that you're challenging yourself. :)

Looking at this makes me want to start oil painting again or pursue digital painting with a bit more dedication.

Such wonderful lighting <3

Strangely breathtaking :O

Thank your girlancee

my god, is a wonderful scene, absolutly great job n_n

Great piece, great story. :]

This looks more than good

Wow. Very nice. And yes I know what you're talking about... I am too shy a person to walk up to someone sometimes, so I quietly flip out my sketch pad and draw away, heh... all these faces and people in my book. I hope it's not a little creepy.

Beautiful piece, though... So warm.

This is incredible

Wow, a furry artist that can draw something other the furry. Very impressive piece.

Curious on the media, and how long it took you to paint it up.

Digital, and almost three hours. Thanks!

Damn, that would have taken me weeks.

This is nothing short of fantastic sir. It's rare to see such a wonderful art style.

Wow. Colors!!!! <3

Lovely woman, lovely piece.

That's just a beautiful little story of wonderful inspiration. <3 Lovely colors and wonderful emotion.

nice. ^^

this has such life to it <3

dude the texture

Breathtaking, really.

Listen to your woman-critter more often. I think that's the lesson here. Certainly it's one of 'em.

Hahaha. She'd probably roll her eyes at the term "woman-critter", but she'd appreciate the sentiment all the same, I'm sure. :)

Can't always get what you want. :D

I call my boyfriend a "man-creature" all the time!

That is a LOVELY painting.

This is gorgeous, I thought it *was* a photo on first glance.

That's really sweet that you're keeping up communication with the lady as well. c: What an awesome coincidence!

I dig it , very sublime painting.

That is so sweet

Its really nice, i came across 2 old ladies on sittin on the bench right in front of me talking about twitter and stuff, they would have been perfect for a picture but I was too shy to ask : P

Never let it happen again! You paint those old women!

awesome ^ ^

Such a touching story, I love happy endings :3

just wow

Wow.. It's really quite incredible. I'm glad you introduced yourself to her, you can almost just look at her an tell that she is an amazing soul.

that is really cool. glad she liked it, who wouldnt.

You just earnt a fan

Nobody can resist the allure of a grandma. Nobody.

Damn right granny YOU HEAR ME

I love absolutely everything about this, especially the sentiment as to why you created it.