Photo Realistic Painting - Imagine That! Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

This painting started as an exercise for a portrait workshop Dru Blair taught in 2005. He took a digital photograph in my studio of a local model (Tica) with my Nikon Coolpix 8700, the goal was to work from reference that provided great lighting, good detail, and accurate skin tones.

There after he created this painting from Scratch, with amazing and accurate details.

  

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