Many of my Drawings that appear here in my Forum Shoppe have been enhanced by way of computer editing tools. However, the gifs that I upload to be made into Avatars are not. This gypsy dancer is a good example of this, so I will upload larger Jpeg pictures and the original scan so you can see.
I do this because I enjoy creating art and I enjoy using many mediums that are not allowed here in MD. To me personally, I do not consider the avatars that I draw for MD as "finished" art work, because they are not as good as they can be. But because the Image is scaled down to 160x100, most of the fine details are lost anyway and so I don't mind as much that my art is "unfinished". I also understand and comply with Mur's/MD's point of view and I respect it. So I only upload for approval according to the rules. Again the Image that appears in the Forum is only used here in the Forum. It has not been radically atlered and is a good representaion of what the Approved avatar will look like.
Here is the picture I used to create the gif Image and would use to upload for approval:
http://storenow.net/my/?f=94fe8f9dc19af77f8895ddbad73f09ad
This image has only been cleaned up, scaled to fit 160x100, and sharpened/brightened a little. No other computer manipulations have occurred.
Copy of the gif ready for approval: http://storenow.net/my/?f=e93f20270cafa901090d9becbddb46c9
Here is the picture when it was first scanned:
no computer manipulations what-so-ever but had to scale down as orriginal scan was too large a file to upload it here.
http://storenow.net/my/?f=427d39585d03a1f5d100c762f07234b2