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#1: Jen (lightvader) on Mar 15, 2008 [SPOILER]

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I'm glad your happy with it!
...tell your dad he has beautiful eyes for me!
BTW..my sons here for a visit, mind if I show him your picture?

Not at all.

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Wow! That sounds beautiful. :)

Thank you! :)

I too thought of Judy Garland...or rather, Dorothy, when I saw this. Very pretty.

Thank you.

This is probably a great image, but it is just too large. I gave up because of the constant need to shift the screen up and down.

LL until you can't get by with just that anymore.

Internal EL in R52 narrows the 8 clue to being between C18-34. More IEL in R51 gives you a blank/dot in C15. In fact, IEL clears all from R50 C15 up to R46 C15.

LL gets you a little farther.

I will add more updates as I continue to solve. Taking a break for now.

Continuing from where I left off, I found a contradiction that allows us to continue. If you fill in R26C11 with a blank/dot, LL causes R28 and R29 to be invalidated because the 9 and 7 clues are split, and they can't be. Backtracking to R26C11, it, therefore, must be black. LL continues until the next block in the road.

Further, if R29 C19-25 are filled in with black, it creates a contradiction in R31C25. So R29 C19-25 must be blank/dotted.

More contradictory logic: R29 C26-31, when black, invalidate R31C28. As a result, R29 C26-28 are blank/dotted.

Now that you can finally place some of the 6 in R29, LL solves most of the eye on the right, as well as her lips entirely.

Don't miss, by the way, that LL blanks out/dots R34C31.

Next part in the next comment.

I'm breaking it up because I find that if I were reading this, it would be difficult to keep track of where I was when referring to these hints, so I'm putting in mile markers, so to speak.

Hints continuing, IEL on R44 C29-31 leaves behind a contradiction in R42. Therefore, R44 C29-31 are blank/dotted.

Testing the next 3-clue option leftward in R44, that is, C26-28, we find a contradiction at R43C21. As a result, we must mark R44C28 blank/dotted.

Trying R44 C25-27 gets me pretty far with no contradictions, so I'm going to try to rule out other options first. I feel that if I keep continuing, I'd be relying on a guess because it would require way too much lookahead.

Starting from the other direction and leaving out tedious over-explanations, we can use contradiction logic to rule out R44 C11-23 as possible spots for black squares. From this moment we can place a definitive black square at R44C26. Continue with LL to the finish.

Overall, another stunning portrait from Naneki.

I had to assume some symmetry, to get started on the features. Oh well.

nice but needs some reverts.

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