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This is the second of three recent portraits I've painted. These are part of a study I did of a quite popular artist here on Deviantart who goes by Sakimichan. I wanted to take an approach to doing semi-realistic portraits, strong colors and increase my speed when painting all things she excels at. Overall this was a success as I produced this painting in considerably less time than I normally spend and learned a number of techniques and ideas of lighting usage while working on this and the other two portraits. I did reference several of Sakimichan's paintings while working on these, I did not copy them however but they do hold similar pose, characteristics, etc. to some of her paintings. I hope she takes this as flattering and it is all an attempt to learn on my part.

Description
This is the second of three recent portraits I've painted. These are part of a study I did of a quite popular artist here on Deviantart who goes by Sakimichan. I wanted to take an approach to doing semi-realistic portraits, strong colors and increase my speed when painting all things she excels at. Overall this was a success as I produced this painting in considerably less time than I normally spend and learned a number of techniques and ideas of lighting usage while working on this and the other two portraits. I did reference several of Sakimichan's paintings while working on these, I did not copy them however but they do hold similar pose, characteristics, etc. to some of her paintings. I hope she takes this as flattering and it is all an attempt to learn on my part.