Jean by Amanda Bates

Excellent, was that done with a pen? and tablet and did you use layers and did you pass over the picture with one or more filters after the painting was done - sorry so m any questions, butte technical aspects intrigue me. I have just been working on a military scene, which I did in watercolour, then photographed and passed through a 'sandstone' filter in my computer art package and I quite like the results, but I would like to attempt to go through the learning curve of doing do everything digitally.

Yes you seem to have got to grips with digital art really well Amanda, it is quite amazing to see what can be achieved with them,this portrait is very eye catching Amanda, as is Normans comment, doing artwork normally by hand and then loading it online and adding another wash as Norman has described is something I had never even realised could be done!

Norm - yes, I used a pen and tablet (attached to the laptop via USB). No, I didn't use layers (I do for vector work, and I think the software - a free-with-the-tablet thing called Artweaver - has the capability, but I'm actually using this in quite a traditional way), and I didn't apply any filters or effects.

A very good portrait Amanda!

This is wonderful. I'm liking digital art more and more.