@Hippy_of_Doom
Sabrina A Thomas
Painting based on the Red Illusion series by Kaoru Saito. I painted the geisha a bit more realistic and than Saito usually does, plus the background isn't black.
I feel like I should mention, though i don't want to draw attention to it, her hand! I think because the background isn't close enough to the reference image, even though her hand is blue in the ref, it doesn't look natural. Let's just imagine she's wearing gloves, si? Anyway, overall I'm pleased with it. Though the join from the scan is really noticeable
Acrylics on 10 x 14 inch canvas textured acrylic paper, over a period of about 3 days
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ok, its really cool. its beautiful, the background, her face, her hair, her clothes, its all very beautiful. lol, her hand, maybe if you made the end of her sleeve bluer it would work? but, thats jst a guess and i dont know because i'm not much of an artist. you, however, are very much so an artist and you really have to stop saying that you're not confident with painting! be confident!!! you're good enough, so be proud of it and stop being not confident lol.
Piecing together multiple scans is such a hassle. If you have Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, what you can do is put the two halves onto separate layers and then use the paintbrush or airbrush on soft light setting with the colour white and paint over the bottom shaded line on the top layer. Or, what I find works well is to just use the eraser tool on an airbrush setting, so that the colours of the bottom of the layer show through and fade into the top layer smoothly.
The picture itself is lovely. I love her face, it's very well painted and captivating. The faint highlights in her hair really stand out and work very well with the blue background and all in all it's really well done.