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March 25, 2009
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Done from photo reference

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Model: Alice Burdeau
Clothes: Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2008 RTW collection

Tools used:
Art Rage 2.5 Full
Paint Tube & Palette Knife (for inital background)
Paint Brush (for everything else)

Time taken: 2 Hours
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~Short2Cents Jan 11, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
This is fantastic, like everyone else said...the white in this works perfectly. Makes me want to get Art Rage too lol
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!Philiemeister Jul 6, 2009
that's amazing @w@

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~Sterfry7 Mar 26, 2009
Gorgeous painting. The colors are some of the most vivid of any portrait I've seen on DA. That scarf looks like you could pick it up off of the screen.
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=le-mec Mar 26, 2009
Good thing you can't, because that D&G scarf probably costs a bazillion dollars.
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~Lhorkan Mar 26, 2009
wow that is exceptional! How you managed to use all this pure white and still make it look so three-dimensional and not at all flat is truly remarkable

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=le-mec Mar 26, 2009
Haha it's really not that remarkable! Pencil sketchers and comic book artists do it all the time - they can make their drawings look three-dimensional even though they work on white pages.

What's important is the placement of features over the surface of the skull - although this painting's done in colour, I have to be constantly aware (and reminding myself) of the overall arrangement of forms - where the skull is, how the skull curves, how the eye sockets recess into the skull, etc...

Also, all the shadows surrounding the white regions -- their placement is also critical to maintaining the careful arrangement of forms - it's like a house of cards -- everything's gotta be in just the right place, and THEN you've gotta figure out what kind of light's gonna reach each area and what's gonna bounce back.
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~HMSpeedFreek Mar 26, 2009
I like it very much, all the small highlights that are in there look so cool. And the lower levels of side lighting are very clear as well!

Great work with the scar anf clothes.

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