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Portrait of Mandi

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I wanted to try doing a digital portrait painting.

I used an old photo I had taken of Mandi See as a reference.

The Inspiration For This

Not much to say here. I just wanted to try to make a portrait. The original source photo has quite dark shadows and warm tones.

I'm not sure if I like this portrait or not. I think getting tones right whilst also preserving the colours was tough and so the painting looks a lot more "alien" than the original photo.

I was scared of posting it at first because I think the tones are not quite right - the highlights are perhaps too extreme and the colours for the shadows almost look bruised.

I will need to practice a lot more to get this right, I think the pastels in Corel Painter look great but they don't always respond the same way as real pastels - but that might be because I used to use oil pastels which have a different feel (I still need to see all the new simulated brushes they have available).

I hope you like it. Also (as I usually say) feel free to use it in your own posts if you can find a use for it.

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How It Was Created

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It was created on Corel Painter 18 on my Mac using a Wacom Tablet.

Corel Painter is probably the most powerful painting software currently available and simulates different painting media more effectively and realistically than anything else I have come across.

For this piece I used a combination of chalks, pastels and pencil brushes.

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