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Published: 2004-12-13 21:59:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 13370; Favourites: 209; Downloads: 1719
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30 minute speed painting in ps7 (partially photo referenced partially from memory)Original size is 1100 x 1200 px (300 dpi)
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tehehe..thank you - and well I normally don't finish my other paintings in 30 minutes
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Uh, halbe Stunde nur? Toll. Echt toll!
Ihr Gesicht ist der Hammer...
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Woa, just 30 min? Girl, you're running! THis is great! I love her face so the colors you chose, wooohooo!!!
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thanks May
well I had a really good reference to work from (specially for the face). The highlights were easy to spot and so where the shadows.
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my god, marry me.
and give me that hair cut
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tehehehe..what haircut? hers?
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Jesus christ, just 30 min? Well, it explains it all why I am a fan of you! Incredible!
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The reference of her face (shoulder) area was really great to work from..strong lightning which was easy to follow
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Masterful, perfect and beautiful!! Awesome work, hon!!
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Donna
Btw happy holidays - hope the new year is going to be as wonderful for you as the past month (except the little downsides 
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Hi, Natascha!!
Happy Holidays to you too, sweetie!! I thank you for the great holiday wishes and hope you have the best years of your life from now on!!
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The lighting is simply amazing. Stunning piece.
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30 MIN???
Daaang, you're pretty amazing if you can do that in 30 minutes.
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It is so beautiful milady but why did you submitted a so small version. 
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dammit Kyena this would take me forever i must be doing something wrong love it girl and might i say you look beautiful in glasses
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Well I painted from reference..so I am not too sure if I deserve too much praise for it but thanks
and hmm? I look beautiful in glasses? Maybe I understand you wrong but I don't think you have ever seen me wearing my glasses
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no i havent but i have seen your pic just using my imagination lol
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Not bad either,
It could be a good practice to make the same sketch multiple times, 5 or 6, reducing the time limit in each one, until you reach 5 mins for example, and make it as abstract as it could get, removing details as you go on, using aminimum amount of lines, and preserving only the basic shapes and tones of the image and see what you can get. This could help a lot.
Also check out this site: >>> [link]
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No prob! Oh, and one another tip is to try not to use the eraser at all, nor correct previous brush strokes. Once you make a stroke, that's it, move on, don't worry if it's not good or if you made a mistake. With practice you will get better. So, try to focus in the general volumes and not in details. In this way, the pics will look more "raw" and "primitive".
Also, in order to catch only the "vital info", you can try focusing your eyes behind the screen. That's a nice way to make fast yet accurate rough sketches, without using any refs.
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oh and concerning the face:
I did use a different brush for it which tends to blend the colors better for the rest I used a normal hard edged brush with different opacity.
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Oh Nick - cool - I try that out, thank you very much for the idea! I am a sucker for inputs like this..everything that could help me work on my skills.
As a matter of fact I did use subtle colors for this piece (greenish, blueish, purplish) but they looked almost grayscale when I wanted to save it for web (since I was working in a color proof mode).
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trust this girl to take my breath away! Brilliant Natascha, simply brilliant. The fact that it took you only 30mins, only adds to that effect
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wooowww 30 min!!!! you have a to fast eye , someday ill reach your skill i promise.... but for the moment i only can TT_TT
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actually the messy brushes show how fast I worked - those are totally unusual for me
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oh, well, but visualy looks great anyway
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Awesome, that is some great detail in only 30 minutes
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I still think it's good, I just did a few 30 minute poses in drawing class and didn't even have time to do the face
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Well not too hard with a reference
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Agreed with Henning -- absolutely lovely work.
I really like seeing this side of your style, Natascha; some more life-studies would really be fun to see from you.
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well I had a reference from a magazine I used so it wasn't that hard to do
thanks a lot Jason
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Wow! I totally love this! I am so proud of you
Cool that you work in gray scale, and those dotty backgrounds facinates me
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actually I did use all different kind of very subtle colors (green, blueish, purplish) but when I saved that thing I noticed that I once more worked in cmyk proof mode and the colors washed totally out when I saved for web - it's really annoying and getting on my nerves
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You can still turn off CMYK proof mode, and the adjust the colors to look the same in RGB 
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I know I can turn it off - but I was not able to get the colors back in there...I could have thrown the computer out of the window when I noticed I did it again..it's so extremely annoying and besides the contrast on my LCD is totally different then on all other comps...
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...still perfectly fixable
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that is so amazing for a speed painting. I envy you... i can't paint to save my life. Just lovely!
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very nice.
especially the face is well done as in all of yer pictures.
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hehe that's probably because the face was part of the reference I used..so it was not that hard really
SchankedΓΆn
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wow this is really good, and only in 30 minutes. you did such a lovely job
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30 minutes? >< man...I have no words. I guess this answers the age old question...can a masterpiece still be a masterpiece if it takes no time to create? I think you know the answer.
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explains the totally crappy brushstrokes though
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