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Published: 2008-04-05 03:40:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1937; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 78
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Just wanted to submit the full sized view that you can't get from the Dev ID version, and to put it under the correct catagory.Program: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0
Media: Wacom Intuos3 tablet, 6"x11"
Misc: Original Canvas size of 1000x1435px
Brushes: Soft Mechanical (1-75 px), Hard Round (1-8 px)
Tools: Smudge Tool (Soft Mechanical; 3-25 px; 20-60% Strength)
Dodge Tool (Hard Round; 1-3px; 1-15% Exposure)
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Comments: 42
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Im going crazy here, If there was a "FAVOURITE ALL" button i would have pressed it by now.
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beautiful portrait and work.
I simply love the way her lips look.
gorgeous..
is this you by any chance?
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There's a lot of me in it, yes
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Looks like a photograph. Absolutely wonderful. Is this based off any real person? Or do you not use reference models?
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amazing, everytime u paint i can tell it is u, u have a very defined style, i love it
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Thank you- must be my dorky habit to make everything soft and smooth. I like the airbrushed look...
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I love the feeling of depth on this one! The soft shading and colours are beautiful. Superb!
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Great details and nice skin tones. I admit that I envy you because I suck at portraits.
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I need to break out of the box. I'm too confined to portraits!!
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But you are so good at it. I guess I know what you mean. For a long time I just did landscapes.
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Never been able to master that. You should give me pointers.
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Honestly I'm not good enough to teach something. But and made some nice tutorials I used. I collected them here :[link]
You can get direct help of these artist at cgpad : [link]
And now you. Can you teach me to improve my portrait skills ? 
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Yeah sure, I'll make a tutorial. Is there anything specific you want it to cover? Like, how to make incredibly realistic eyes? Hair? Etc?
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Hair is definitely something I need learn. But what I really need (an nearly no tutorial explains) is how to start. The position of the eyes, nose, mouth. The right proportions and all that stuff.
A tutorial would be awesome but thats a lot of work. A few screenshots of your workflow with some words would work too I guess.
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I have a really really old tutorial that I made a long time ago, maybe I can post that one. Personally, I'd rather start a new one from scratch though, since I've gotten better at making the paintings more realistic since then and I think it would be more helpful. How often do you sketch free-hand? I'm very unorthodox when I sketch. I swear, I have three sketch pads, but I always end up using computer paper and a mechanical pencil and smudging the shadows with my fingers or a kleenex. But hey, whatever works!
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Hmm sounds like me but since last year with just one sketchbook. Before it was a loose paper collection too. What do you mean with free-hand ? Traditional ? Or without reference ?
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sometimes with a reference, sometimes without.
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Ah ok. most of the time without. I guess thats not good but I'm to lazy to search for reference.
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Wow. Such detail 
How did you do the lace corsetry thing? It looks so realistic
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Lace is impossible. Start with a huge file that is 2.000px in at least one direction and go through with a very very small brush. Or you could do what I did and instead of painting every single thread of the lace, paint general areas with a small brush and swirl the colours together to get the soft feel.
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o.o This is great. I love the detail of the hair. If you don't mind me asking, how much time do you typically devote to your portraits?
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It really depends. I will sometimes start a project then come back to it a month later [which makes it hard to keep acurate tabs on time]. But generally, I'll get in a painting mood and pull an all-nighter, no sleep, just painting away on the tablet and listening to music. So several nights of that, some hours in between. And depending on how specific I want to get, each one takes about a week, anywhere from 20 hours to 30. Of course, that's a rough approximation, I have no exact time.
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too bad you live far. It would have been nice to pull off a DP jam session lol.
But hey ...there's always msn. lol
What I really like is that your Tech specs. It's nice to see the tools that you use. Thanks for sharing that !
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What is a DP session?Anyway, I post the technical details because a lot of times people ask me about the process I use.
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The time invested certainly pays off o.o.
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