You reduced the size? Aw man, you shouldn't do that.

It's good for practice I suppose, but you shouldn't submit that to the gallery.

yup, but we dont believe you because not only the lightning itself but also the reflection on the clouds is exactly the same as on the picture.

Hi sorry i forgot to post my ref, my apoligies, but this is what i did:

In paint i got the picture reduced the sized then got the pen,went over the bolts,then did the dithering i am sorry i keep forgeting to mention my reference pictures,but i am sure your allowed to go over the image i have seen it before.

so is he going to be banned///

It's a pattern dither color reduction. Download Gimp and see for yourself.

Hmm.... I dunno. I'm looking at the picture that Adam found. And I'm looking at this thing zoomed in all the way.... I dunno, it looks like it might be hand dithered.

Yeah this looks like a sticky mess. At the very least Platnium should mention his ref pic.

You should be ashamed. I hope you get banned.

EDIT: Adam, be sure to report it.

Good work AP. Let us hope this wins him a well deserved ban.

I FOUND IT!!!

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/inwic/lightning.png

You've tried to deceive this community by posting rips or color reductions, what, 4 or 5 times now? You're lucky you haven't been banned. You sure would be if I were a mod. You're taking the unbelievable patience and kindness of the staff and spitting in their faces, not to mention the members who care about the integrity of the gallery. Get real and either confess or post a WIP. I will weep if this gets into the gallery without one.

This is a little higher quality then youre other peices which makes it questionable. but if it isnt a color reduc, then great job.
This isthe only simliar thing i could find
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/tor_faq/LightningPuebloCO.jpg

This is as pixelled as his other lightning, which is not.

Very nice dithering here. It makes the piece look really nice. Good job. :)

This doesn't look hand-pixelled to me. If I'm wrong, my apologies. But if this is a colour reduction, you should keep in mind that fesssing up now would probably be better than getting caught later.

Spiffy looking.