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NestorTomaselliArt — Wanna Fly?
Published: 2010-05-05 12:24:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3441; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 192
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After 3 days of work I think I have probably achieved the 2nd most realistic drawing in my gallery. I really had ALOT of fun painting this and it came out just like I wanted
. The model in the picture and the one I used as reference is the stunning and beautiful Ana Sofia Henao from Colombia (la patria hermana!), the wings, feathers, sky and foreground was all done and improvised by myself . I got the reference picture from here [link] Done with CS3 and my wacom tablet.
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HOLEY FUCKINGIN COW!!!!! She LOOKS AMAZING TO ME!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!
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Thank you so much!!!
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helloo!!
Well. First off, HOT XD
Now to the critique. The face is is very well done, I love her eyes. Very intense.
I think her hair too sharp, or too many, thin stray hairs. I can't really put a finger on it.. But a broblem, little one though, is that it takes impact away of her eyes. When we see hair, we don't look at it like it's million individual hairs, more like...a mass of hair. Take a look at these: [link]
I don't really know how else I could explain this..
And as it seems she is somewhere up high, shouldn't there be some wind?
Her skin might be a bit too shiny, but then again. She's an angel, so it doesn't really matter.
I understand that in reference the hand was cropped, but generally it's not good thing to cut limbs at joints. As her wrist is getting close to picture frame, it would be better to crop picture a bit so it would cut her arm more in middle of the lower arm. Or then twist her arm a bit to make it show totally. You could maybe use her hand to make some kind of gesture to strengthen the "Wanna fly?"-theme.
Dunno if you intented it or not, but the wings make a nice frame to lead the eye.
I can't really think of more. Hope this helped.
Oh, one question though. How do you choose the colours to the skin. Do you colour pick, have some kind of a curve on palette you take colors from or how? Just curious, because I have a bit problems in it myself and you have very natural look on your skin tones.
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Thanks alot for your comment! Yea you are right about the hair, I think I should probably decrease a bit more the flow on the hair brush tool I use. And thanks for the reference, I've seen the works of that artist before and he's amazing! Yea and I also think I should have tried to improvise more with the arm a but. And thanks on the wings hehe, I think it was actually not intended it just came out.
Oh and with the skin tones, I just color pick and I base myself off from the picture. For this one I based myself alot on orange skin tones and bright brown skin tones to give her that tan she has. I usually choose the color for my basic skin color layer as the color that is sort of in between the dark and the lights. Oh and I also try to pick my colors very next to each other, for example, if I'm using a brownish-orange skin tone I just pick a color that us a bit brighter or darker than it, then if I want to make it lighter or darker I just move it a bit more down or up. But when I do very dark shadows I usually don't use black, instead a very very dark brown (depending on what the skin color is), cuz generally if you use black the picture will look a bit "dirty". And for the highlights, same thing tho if I want to make it just very very white in a specific area (like on the shoulder on this one) I just use plain white with I think around 15 opacity and 10 flow.
Finally, if I see that in my picture the skin tone isnt light enough or dark enough or it doesn't merge in with the background, I just merge the skin into one layer (a bit risky tho) and then I modify it a tiny bit with the hue/saturation tool. I used this technique on this one but in the hair.
Again, thanks for the critique!
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Glad to help
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No problems, anytime you need some, just ask
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If this is an angel, I want to be a cloud!
I see where you improvised 
The link seems dead BTW; here's a [link] I found that might be close to the one you gave.
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Thanks alot for your comment! I really appreciate the analyisis in it! Oh and also thanks for the link alot, I'll post it up
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It's my pleasure. This said, your art is fantastic; I have now added you to my watch list
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Thanks alot for the watch!! I'll keep providing you with my artwork
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Hehe, I hope so 
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Thanks alot for your comment!
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Jaja gracias chamo, deverdad q me faje haciendo este dibujo y uno de mis mayores propositos fue que se viera muy real
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Bueno, lo lograste! felicitaciones.
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ella es una modelo colombiana , o al menos se parece muchisimo!
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Jeje si si lo es, es Ana Sofia Henao, es demasiado hermosa.
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jaja lo sabia
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Jeje estoy satisfecho porque he notado que logre capturar su perfeccion y belleza
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Haha que buen ojo hermano.
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Hehehe como no reconocer a una hermosa colombiana como ella?
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Really nice work. Volumes and light effects are awesome. I love it too.
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Thank you so much!
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Thanks! And yep, done in Adobe Photoshop CS4, it was very tedious and I used a crap load of values and tones to get the different shades and it turned out very smooth!
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fooled me alright. when i first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was image manipulation. great job
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Thanks alot! I achieved reality once again
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