Caught In The Act

An older piece of mine, that'll be three years to the day on this coming Christmas Eve. This was done long before I came to SCAD-Atlanta and upon seeing all of the prolific digital painters out there I said to myself 'I can do that! :o' What resulted was almost an agonizing crash course in teaching myself Color Theory when I had never had any formal training in the subject, as well as becoming more intimately aware of how Painter works. This project, actual measurements being 18x22 at 300 DPI, took such a rediculous amount of hours that if I were paid for it in the end it wouldn't even be worth it, but what I learned was worth it's weight in gold. Despite the snails pace I worked at this piece, spanning two day jobs and three versions of Painter (gives you an idea of how long it took), I think I've learned a few tricks to be more expedient at the process. Like custom brushes. I'm laughing at that I never learned custom brushes earlier.

Also enclosed are full res detail shots where notably the girl's eyes are ten different shades of green and his are nine different colors. The beadwork on her dress is also nine different colors. :>