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In progress...
...and it's not the Japanese girl with the bone-handled sword and the fish. It's the cheesecake pic I did so long ago that you've probably forgotten it (unless you right-clicked and saved to disk XD), of a view of an Egyptian dancing girl.
Needless to say, NSFW warning for ladybutt that looks nekkid because I haven't painted her belt and loincloth-y thing yet.
It looks very realistic right now, because it's shrunk down for Web display. At real resolution, it's not quite so nice. :)
The gentleman on the right is The Moorish Chief by Eduard Charlemont, and I have taken the original of it, which is much more dusty brown and desaturated, and adjusted the colors until the pop and am using it to eyedropper colors from. You can see the original here, at http://www.sandstead.com, which I discovered today and which contains some wonderful shots of art and architecture.
And also when looking at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's site to see if they sell prints of The Moorish Chief, because I think I am falling in love with the painting after staring at it for so long while painting my dancing girl, I discovered this really nice education page about the painting on the site, which gives its history. It's a painting of a costumed model, rather than a portrait of a specific person (so I shall assign the setting and costume to the realm of historical fantasy, rather than history), and was first titled The Guardian of the Seraglio, probably because of Victorian England's fascination with harems and such, was retitled The Alhambra Guard, probably because of the background, which is based off of the Alhambra in Spain, and now it's The Moorish Chief, which I prefer because it promotes the main character above a mere guard.
At any rate, I have rediscovered that the one thing that makes me really productive is to really really need to be doing something else.
Oh, one more thing - for those who are interested, I'm doing this while following the tutorial "Give line art a classic look" in the No. 5 issue of Digital Artist, the magazine that Corel Painter turned into this year. And it's being done in Photoshop.
Needless to say, NSFW warning for ladybutt that looks nekkid because I haven't painted her belt and loincloth-y thing yet.
It looks very realistic right now, because it's shrunk down for Web display. At real resolution, it's not quite so nice. :)
The gentleman on the right is The Moorish Chief by Eduard Charlemont, and I have taken the original of it, which is much more dusty brown and desaturated, and adjusted the colors until the pop and am using it to eyedropper colors from. You can see the original here, at http://www.sandstead.com, which I discovered today and which contains some wonderful shots of art and architecture.
And also when looking at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's site to see if they sell prints of The Moorish Chief, because I think I am falling in love with the painting after staring at it for so long while painting my dancing girl, I discovered this really nice education page about the painting on the site, which gives its history. It's a painting of a costumed model, rather than a portrait of a specific person (so I shall assign the setting and costume to the realm of historical fantasy, rather than history), and was first titled The Guardian of the Seraglio, probably because of Victorian England's fascination with harems and such, was retitled The Alhambra Guard, probably because of the background, which is based off of the Alhambra in Spain, and now it's The Moorish Chief, which I prefer because it promotes the main character above a mere guard.
At any rate, I have rediscovered that the one thing that makes me really productive is to really really need to be doing something else.
Oh, one more thing - for those who are interested, I'm doing this while following the tutorial "Give line art a classic look" in the No. 5 issue of Digital Artist, the magazine that Corel Painter turned into this year. And it's being done in Photoshop.
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Now you'll definitely get me to keep tabs on your progress, LOL. And yeah, it might be web-sized - but I think it's awe-inducing. :^)
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Congratulations!
At any rate, I have rediscovered that the one thing that makes me really productive is to really really need to be doing something else.
Heh. Same here.