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In the immortal words of Monty Python, "And now for something completely different."

I felt like trying my hand at doing a portrait. I'm normally terrible at drawing both women and skin tones, so I was trying to kill two birds with one stone. Originally I had only intended to do a quick little sketch, but actually got into this "painting". I'm hoping I didn't over render it though. I wasn't going for photo-realistic, but more loosely colored, like an impressionist portrait (I'm not a huge fan of overly rendered Photoshop images).

The girl is from a stock image I found here on devART (Sadly, the rumors are true, I do not have beautiful women lining up to model for my Photoshop drawings).

Her gallery can be found here: [link]

I also used a canvas texture to fool you all into thinking that I'm actually a legitimate artist: [link]

Thoughts? Critiques? I would love to hear them.
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*manfishinc May 19, 2010  Professional General Artist
I love the composition and the skin tones
awesome work
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~WonderDookie May 21, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that. I basically did the whole "painting" as skin tone practice.
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~oolostentity May 5, 2009  Student General Artist
The fact that its loose is what makes it nice. Considering its just an early try should make you pretty aware you just might be on to something here.
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~WonderDookie May 8, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Well thank you much. Yeah. I'll definitely have to give these another try. Thanks for the encouragement.
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~Cosmic-Rocket-Man Apr 30, 2009  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
love it, makes me want to try some new things :)
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~WonderDookie Apr 30, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Well awesome! It's always fun to take a trip out of the box sometimes (even if that means trying to mimic a painting style from two centuries ago... hmmmm....)
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~iamfergie Apr 24, 2009  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wow, you are just a Deviant of many talents! That is really gorgeous. The mouth is a little wonky - small, I guess, if you want to be technical - but facial proportions are hard unless you know all the tricks and shortcuts. But I love how it looks very must like an oil painting. I'll never know how one accomplishes such a feat using Photoshop.

You're one of the best examples I know of that prove the saying, "Once you put your mind to it, you can do anything."
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~WonderDookie Apr 25, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you for the exceptionally kind comment. I might have to print that one off and add it to my wall of ego.

URGH. Now when I look at the mouth it does seem pretty poorly done compared to the rest of the "painting". I think I got lazy on that part.
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*hever Apr 24, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
I think it's perty. I like the blocked in style...very painterly.
Now, since I'm actually in the rare position to give you a critique....would you like one?
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~WonderDookie Apr 24, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh yes. By all means! Critique away.
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