Portrait study 1

*this is a study in digital portraiture with the heavy use of a photographic reference*

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4

After studying the tutorial by ZhangLu and Jason Manley on painting digital portraits, I deemed it necessary to rework my current digital artworks.

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I tried not to spend too much time on this portrait. Finished it in more or less three hours. I copied the face and some other details from a photograph of a certain Hollywood actress. Mainly I changed the hair. Ended up being quite disappointed that I wasn't able to make it look like her in the end. Though I'm really happy I learned a whole lot of useful techniques and insights from the video.

Feel free to guess who you think this was intended to be haha

Thanks for looking guys!