yay! I’ve finally com­pleted my lat­est dig­i­tal paint­ing.. a por­trait of Hong Kong singer Char­lene Choi (Twins) which I named “Choco­late Princess” :) I started this a week ago and spent about 25–30 hours on it total– pretty crazy huh? I based this image entirely off a ref­er­ence image– so nope,  I didn’t make her up. Maybe one day I’ll be good enough to paint with­out a ref­er­ence (though that will be super tough!)

This art­work is my per­sonal best so far so I hope you like it too!

Spe­cial thanks to Maki who gave me a crash course on how to blend colours yes­ter­day (when the paint­ing was almost done! haha). I was hav­ing a lot of trou­ble blend­ing colours and it gave me an idea of how to tackle it (though I didn’t fol­low it exactly, I adapted it to my own style) You can com­pare the dif­fer­ence with the 2^nd pic­ture above with the one below.

Close up of the fin­ished paint­ing at 100% scale.

My favourite parts: Her eyes, her hair with the melt­ing choco­late and the left side of her dress
Most dif­fi­cult aspect: Her face (in par­tic­u­lar her lips),  painting/​blending skin tone  and colour­ing her dress

Final com­ments: The fur on her back was fun to paint (though very tir­ing since I drew every stroke)
I like how she looks in the end, except her face is slightly more chubby than I’d like (it looked thin­ner in pre­vi­ous revi­sions but in the end the light­ing made her more round.. and I couldn’t fix it, haha)

March 6th, 2011 | completed, painting, wip