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Madonna Portrait
By Richard Wiley, London

This brilliantly realistic portrait of Madonna has been drawn completely by hand. The gradients on her face were created manually on a massive page size and then shrunk down. Once the face was complete, the head and shoulders were added.

Project A-KO
By David Worrall, Dunfermline

Cute Japanese cartoon characters are popular with Gallery entrants. This fab image has been hand-drawn with gradient fills, airbrushing and detailed editing using DPaint III's magnification tool.

Fatality
By Mr J McEwen, Loughborough

The chalk outline was drawn in DPaint IV and mapped on to the rendered floor using DPaint's perspective tool and then anti-aliased by hand. The pistol was rendered seperately and then mapped on in DPaint.

Flower
By Martin Jones, Thorpe Bay

This was rendered on an Amiga 1500 with a GVP G-Force accelerator running Imagine 3.0. Martin has now change over to Lightwave - let's hope that he continues to produce images of this quality.

Ork Warrior
By Alan Knowles, Birkenhead

Not a very stunning image at first sight, but the use of posterised colour and subtle dithering patterns makes it very striking. Worth noting is the clever use of a limited colour palette (no more than 16 colours have been used) and subtle shading effects.

Hard Girl
By David Squirrel, Draycott

Based on an image from the Foundations Forum 94 advertisement, David has transferred this picture to his Amiga 1200 using DPaint IV AGA. Although the perspective on the girl's face is not quite correct, the image still works extremely well.

The Screamer
By Andrew Cashmore, Staffordshire

Last but not least, we have Andrew Cashmore's Screamer, a disturbing picture that lends itself to a purely monochrome palette extremely well. The clever use of shades of grey adds to the image's sinister atmosphere. Nice one Andrew!