This is a digital portrait painting that I did for my daughter Laura for Christmas this year. Laura shares my passion for art as well as action movies and comic book characters.
I thought it would be cool to draw and paint her as a super hero artist armed with artist tool weapons up against a smokey water colour style background.
Inspiration came from some images I had researched of Wonder Woman and everything just kinda fell into place from there. I did the painting in Photoshop on the Wacom Cintiq and had it printed on photo paper and framed for hanging at a size of 18"x24".
Posted by Barb. Shortreed (Member # 1730) on :
Wow! Beautiful work Bevin, I'm sure Laura will be pleased
I remember back to the day you and Linda told us you were expecting a little bundle. She has turned into a very beautiful young lady and I know how very proud you are of her.
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
that is great! I would have a difficult time illustrating such a beautiful, sexy subject with all those awesome curves and tones... and then keep remembering "WHOA-THAT'S MY DAUGHTER!" Posted by Joy Kjer (Member # 3026) on :
Your daughter is lucky to have a dad who would take so much time and talent to create this for her! Merry Christmas, happy holidays!
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Wow, that's really a great picture. Ya got all the muscles, shadows and fade outs just right.
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
That colorful background is way cool.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Beautiful Work and a Beautiful Daughter!!!
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Great work...one of these days I'd like to give you call to learn more about painting in Photoshop...such as what format do I paint in to be able to print out something with some size and have good resolution.
Posted by Bevin Finlay (Member # 2159) on :
Thank you for your wonderful comments. Laura thought it was awesome and I think her boyfriend liked it pretty good as well... LOL
Rusty; I generally work with a resolution setting of 300 pixels/inch and depending on what the final print size is to be, determines the canvas size that I set in photoshop. Example, my canvas size for this piece was full size but if the final print was going to be much larger, like a 4'x8' then working at 25% scale at a resolution of 300 is a good rule of thumb.
File sizes can get a bit on the large size though, especially if you use a lot of layers, so you have to work according to what your system can handle performance wise. You can always down size a larger canvas a bit to bring the file size down.
thanks
Posted by Pat Welter (Member # 785) on :
That's some cool Christmas gift Bevin...Bet she had a grin ear to ear...
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
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