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Published: 2009-11-16 08:25:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 32020; Favourites: 316; Downloads: 1319
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Details from [link] . The whole painting was quite loose for me and I made no effort to 'hide' the brush strokes. This isn't really obvious at the smaller size, so I thought I'd post a 1:1 of the hand from the picture just in case someone was interested in taking a peek.Click on it for proper size.
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Dude that amazing looks like a photo, crickeymate.
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...but no skills at being mad - just loopy! Cheers man!
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its like a friggin' photograph... exceptional through and through.
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Thanks man! Always appreciate you coming by!
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luckily it's a little loos (ironic)
it's a beautiful painting
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It loses some of it's photo-like-ness at full size, but only barely. Your amazing m'man!
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quite loose... oh my! This is so beautiful, you've a fucking realistic style 
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Thanks ma'am! This was done as a portraite for a friend for her birthday and was based on a photo I took of her sometime back.
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Well nice work 
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Do you rotate your canvas much while you're working? I would love
to work at such a high resolution but if I want to rotate
90 degrees or flop the picture it takes maybe half a minute on my
computer (Mac G4). I usually work no larger than 8000 px high at
72 dpi. Doesn't the high res slow you down?
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I don't actually rotate my canvas when painting - but I do have 30" Mac monitor which gives me plenty of screen area to work with. I often open a second copy of the file Im working on in photoshop and make it small so I have an idea of the 'big picture' view while I'm working on the details. I rarely paint anything bigger than 8000 pixels high but thats can still take time, particularly when saving etc., I probably need to update my equipment too - its 15' mac power book that only can take 2 gigs of ram, which isnt really enough for working on huge files comfortably.
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That's what you call loose?? Oh, I'm screaming alright...
Seriously, even more than your artistic skills, I admire your patience and attention to detail. Thanks again for posting your work: not only is it beautiful but observing it helps me improve as an artist myself
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Thanks for the lovely words, always appreciate it when you come by!!
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That's a loooong conversation, and something I wonder about very often: is an artist born or made? On one hand I've come to believe that it's desire you're born with, not talent, and a great desire to create art, coupled with persistence and time, will eventually transform into talent. On the other hand I can't help but feel that there's also some form of inborn skills involved. For instance, it's impressive that most great artists had a great sense of space even as kids and where much better painters compared to their peers.
In your case, I assure you, your amazing talent is pretty much a given. Patience and persistence are just a couple of its numerous aspects, and that's something I should remind myself of as well. There are lots of artists I know that are both patient and persistent and still end up with elaborate doodles
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brush strokes? what brush strokes? :shock:
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When my brush has a stroke, I give it mouth to mouth and then call an ambulance- though the mouth to mouth tastes terrible if you've been using oil paints.
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epic lol!
try using figments of fig pigments, they actually taste good.
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You should see me on a unicycle then!
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Thanks serge - always nice having you check out my work!
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great, very realistic, especially the nails
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Thanks. Its good to have clean nails!
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For loose, this is amazing! Do you mind sharing how you did this?
Zo!
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My usual method of working is - pencil sketch on paper, scanned in and painted in photoshop. I had to stop painting everything with magic lemur tails after the animal liberation movement picketed my studio 
[link] is a step by step of me painting someones head, and was pretty much the same process I used to paint the hand.
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Thanks for the prompt reply!
The hand looks extremely life-like. At first glace, I thought the piece was photo-manipulated.
It would be nice to see your work-through for the hand and what brushes you used or created.
Perhaps someday you can post a hands and feet tutorial for those of us still grasping the awesomeness of Photoshop.
Zo!
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This is PS? It's so smooth I almost thought it was Illustrator. Your canvas must be HUGE.
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