hey folks, i've been doing a few portraits for people in my usual airbrushed style, which has taken me years to get to a photorealistic level of finish. but after putting out flyers i've found that as soon as you tell people that they're airbrushed on the computer, there's the automatic assumption that you just scan a photo and somehow the computer does it all for you. which is a little frustrating when you've spent tens of hours meticulously hand painting an image. but due to the oh so smooth finish of the airbrush in photoshop i can see why the uninformed would make this assumption.
anyway, enough of a rant for now...
i've started offering a more traditional style of artwork now, so instead of spending hours fussing over the tiniest details, i'm just slapping them down in corel painter, using traditional acrylic and oil painting methods, to achieve a more "artistic" finish.
it's actually quite a bit of fun, and a lot quicker. this friesian portrait only took a few hours, using a photo reference (i just had to paint it without the bridle).
it's a bit of a different direction for me, but hey, gotta keep trying new things or life gets boring.
seeya.