Here's the final result of my digital painting practice. I was aiming for painterly realism in this piece. Progress shots of this piece is available on older posts of this blog. The painting is done entirely in Corel Painter Essential 4 which came packaged with my tablet. The portrait itself is done in one layer and the blue background is on another layer. The painting took a long time to complete because I had to keep redrawing and fixing things. A picture from Chatelaine magazine was used as reference. What I have learned from this practice is a solid base drawing with correct perspective and anatomy will cut down a lot of time spent on redraws. This was a good experience, but I still have a lot to learn about digital paintings.
