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A really lovely image. I love the limited colours and the way the light just catches the characters at the bottom.

Lovely! This is beautiful--and will make a fabulous card (no doubt what it is). I love the textures in it.

Very nice! I love the silhouettes!

Oh, you should be really pleased! I would wish to have a drawing like that of my horse too. It´s beautiful!

Well, it's a 'orse, of course!

some scans are like that, not all that good. this is wonderful.

I might just be a silent lurker most of the time, but I do love your work!

As for your scanner, some of those contraptions really benefit from having at least part of the image white (for baseline calibration). Perhaps you could try increasing the scan area when you work with a document with a colored background like this, so as to include some white surface. Just crop this unwanted area out of the final image. Might help, might not, but doesn't cost much to try. Good luck.

Amazing!!!

Very elegant 'orse I might add!
xx

Scans and photos of drawings/paintings of black animals never turn out as good as the original for some reason - but this still looks terrific. Love that knowing look!

Looks absolutely amazing, what a lucky friend to get this gift :)

Lovely 'orse Andrea, :) cross hatching looks lovely. When I scan certain things, ie, black and white and greys etc, I use a sheet of acetate(thin, like photocopiers take) over the artwork, and for some reason it picks up more detail. It's essential I've found, hope you find so too! Best wishes, Jules.

Wow... Thanks.. I'm at the first time on your blog! And I like it! Thanks for sharing info. Keep up the good work.

that is great11111!!!!!

OMG Steph, LOVE! I’m a huge fan of owls (at least this month I am) so I’m digging these. I like them both, but there’s something a little creepy/devious about the first one. I think it’s the owl’s eyes.

I think owls aren’t very sociable and maybe they don’t get much encouragement to be. When I was biking the other morning I heard some birds making a racket and looked up to see what it was about and saw they were screeching at an owl high in a tree.

Yay! Thanks Jen! The eyes were a happy accident. I was showing my husband the image on the computer, going back and forth between the color version and the silhouette. At one point the layer with the eyes stayed on and DH said he liked it. I did too. It made the image so much better and added emotion. So happy I realized that before getting the postcards printed!

Alison, Thanks for sharing your story! It’s what I was picturing in my head when I drew this (except I imagined them singing instead of screeching, while the owl wanted to sleep).

I feel like the owl’s in the process of rolling his eyes in the first one – sick of all the chatter I think you might be right that some birds don’t like parties, or maybe owl just needed some quiet time at the end of a hard night.

Love it Andrea! :-)

Cute drawing, Andrea. I shared your post with my friends, Charles and Andrea who Boston Terrier lovers. I'm glad to see that you're keeping busy :)

Thanks, chucks.

Salvador, I will get back to you. Promise! And, thanks for sharing.