very nice background! She has a wonderful face, but maybe she's a bit off balance?!

Beautiful!
I love the soft colors you'v used in here and her face is indeed very pretty.

beautiful indeed! good job!

Very nice! The sky is beautiful and the colors are really pretty.

that sky is really wonderful, but it makes me wish there was something more going on in the foreground.. like some flowers or some pattern in the ground. I love her back and shoulders, you did a great job with that.

This is really quite good. I love the lighting and the color key on this. I agree that the composition does sem a little lacking, it just needs a little something on the right of the figure to balance it out. Phenomenal job for a first photoshop painting..can't wait to see what you do next.

She is very beautiful. If i see a girl like this, i'm sure i wont let her pass by.

Hmmmm, very nice. I like how overall you use a limited colour palette, but you have a lot of subtle variation throughout the piece.

I agree with PhilipStraub that it's lacking something to the right of the figure, but I don't think it needs to be an actual object. Your clouds draw attention to her elbow and the back of her head, but if you change them a little you could draw attention to her face and shoulder more. Then if you tone down the clouds and highlights on the left side, it would bring more emphasis to the figure's right.

Very nice technique.

From aside of what everyone said about the crits.

Superb job!

i like it, looks very nice, but then overall looks abit empty =)
mayb thats just my personal viewpoint
anyway nice work, hope to c more works from u

This is really beautiful! And I don't agree with the persons above - I think it's perfectly balanced and beautifully executed. Very nice work!

thanks for all the comments! i'm glad for the most part everyone likes the piece.. i've definetly been getting mixed reviews on her. pretty much all the comments you guys have been saying. I guess I really need to put more thought into the overall composition. I did this pretty quick without really thinking too much.. like i said.. i'm not really used to 2d.. for my next piece however i will definetly take everything said into account and hopefully make something even better! thanks again everyone! by the way..i updated the image thanks to the comments here.. I hopefully fixed the ballancing issue.. thanks for that! and ChrisThatGuy.. very interesting thoughts about the clouds drawing attention to her elbow and back of the head.. i think i'm gonna play around with that and try what you said.. thanks!

I hope it works out. You have a really nice rendering style, and with a little tweeking you could get a really big impact out of your works.

Very beautiful, the details in the hair and the clouds are gorgeous!

From her knees up it has a very beautiful compostion, but the bottom of the picture looks like it could be more detailed. The bottom of her dress looks kind of weird... like it's been gathered slightly right at the bottom, which I've never seen in a dress. It almost looks to sketchy. I'd make the dress longer and have it drape gently on the ground so you can add some little wrinkles and define it more. Also, while there is nothing wrong with the railing, I think you could spice up the picture a bit more if it was at more of an angle towards the "camera," maybe by having it come closer to the picture plane on the right side. Just looks a little flat to me.

Sorry for the long critique.. you can still do way better than me *sweatdrop*

Lovely sky. And an unusual character, too...what a muscular-looking back! Whee!

I like the little 'wave' in the railing, too...

She's beautiful

I love the sky! As everyone already mentioned, great job!

This is your first 2d attempt? right thats it! I am using my graphics tablet as a cutting board from now on. - Your work is breathtaking for a first attempt.
- wouldn't want to take a fall from her balcony - looks bloody high up!

her hair.... wonderfully done

WoW!! it's Really Wonderful

Pretty frikin nice man!