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Published: 2007-02-08 19:53:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 21948; Favourites: 446; Downloads: 0
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Started this ages ago and it came to an abrupt halt, so I dusted it off for another shot.
I really liked the sketch stage of this one. (It's not very clear in this view, but I added it to my Scraps here ) There's a lot of hair which I think is why it stalled early on. I decided it was time to face my demons!
In some ways it's quite similar to the Scarlett piece - the angle of the head is almost the same so I'm using the same colour palette and have also used the same background (albeit flipped).
This was my first serious 'hair piece' (if you'll pardon the pun
) and I really tried hard to get the hair looking as realistic as possible. 
See the finished piece here! 
Tea Leoni is married to X-Files star David Duchovny and appeared in Bad Boys & Deep Impact.
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You're welcome! I hope you find it useful. 
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completely stunning .....such a great job with detail....love it
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I was wondering... is there a specific brush that you use??
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I only use the default brushes so there's no fancy brush sets or anything. It'll either be hard-edged, or soft-edged. Sometimes I play about with scattering & spacing the Brush palette. But honestly... there's nothing complex or fancy going on here!
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Okay thank you so much for the reply!
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You're welcome. I hope you find it useful.
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toooooooooooooooooooooo~~~~
i like it ..
it helps me
oh ! omg.... i search on net for more tut on digital painting here my search over
i can start creating my own digital painting ...
thanks YOu very
much
sir ! can u wrote something about
how to shading and lighting ( i mean its techniques )
i hope you answer me .....
thanks again ......
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I'm glad you found the WIPs helpful!
Every painting is different so it's difficult to explain specifics about shading & lighting. I would recommend checking out my Tutorials section. Each piece in there, explains a little bit about how I paint. Hopefully that will help you.
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you are god XD awesome pic, really love the detail.
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She reminds me so much of Rain Mikamura!
Sorry, twas a bit random, but very nice expression on her face.
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Why did you leave out her ear-ring? Or are you going to put it in later? I think it would add a nice touch of elegance to the piece.
I really think you did a great job at capturing her, though.
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Oh I added the earring. I completed this one a while ago. The finished portrait is in my gallery.
And thanks. I'm glad you like it.
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Oh, I see. Sorry. The last one so perfect, I thought you were done.
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Thank you so much for spending time to share with us how you did it. I have wondered so much how artists made digital pictures.
This will make it easier for me and a lot of us! Thanks!
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You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
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Fantastic walkthru of your process. Well done
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Thanks a lot! I love dig-painting but still trying to u/stand the basics of it; I hope ur tut will help me a lot.
If there is any site for this please let me know.
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Thanks a lot! I love dig-painting but still trying to u/stand the basics of it; I hope ur tut will help me a lot.
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nice, kinda helpful since im just starting out in digital art
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I hope you find it useful. Be sure to ask questions if you have any - I'm happy to help.
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Amazing tutorial 
But I guess, I remain in the traditional art
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This is very nice work so far! Can't wait to see another one of your masterpieces when it's finished.
-OleanderChardonai
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First of all, this is so awesome. An instant fave. One thing that's left out is how you do the highlights in the skin on the 2nd-4th frames. Is it a soft brush, what opacity? How do you pick the color?
I'm trying a black and white painting of Ewan McGregor right now and it's driving me crazy. I just don't get the nice smooth, natural looking skin - it makes me want to grab a pencil and paper because I know how to do it that way! lol...
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Two choices really:
~ To do the very rough highlights, I use the 'Dodge' tool set to Midtone at about 10-20% opacity.
~ When I'm concentrating on getting the colours right I choose a very light, almost white skin colour, and use a large soft brush at 5-10% opacity.
If you don't want to select this colour by eye, use the eyedropper on the reference image, clicking the lightest area of the face.
Starting out with black & white digital portraits is a good way to start, especially if you're still getting used to the tablet. You only concentrate on contrast rather than colours aswell.
Looking forward to see how you do, Kristy!
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COOL!!! what program did you use?? i'd love to learn to do this!
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This is Photoshop CS2, but you could easily do this in an earlier version since I'm only using basic tools.
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cool! i was asking bc i thought it might be Photoshop, and my dad just bought the program... i don't really know how to work with it yet... but i've been trying to learn...
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omg dude your fuckin awesome.... do you a mouse or a tablet because i have been thinking that maybe if i got me a tablet i could improve my drawing photoshop because i can draw alot better on paper than with a mouse.
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I only use graphics tablets these days - Wacom Intuos2 at work, Intuos3 at home. It's a real godsend. I wouldn't even consider trying to do anything with a mouse these days.
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impressive, thanks for sharing how you paint portraits
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