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Here is my photo reference, taken from page 15 of the 2002 "Spring Preview" Victoria's Secret Catalog. Used without permission, yadda yadda. Victoria's Secret is cool.
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Plop down a mottled, medium toned background. I tried to emulate some of the colors in the background of the photo. Block in major shapes, main values.
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Working from the medium values, add lights and darks, to start to define forms.
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More value work, trying to use large brush strokes and not get bogged down in detail at this point.
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OK, maybe a little bit of detail, but NOT TOO MUCH. I add a floor for her to sit on.
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At this point I want to start refining the shapes and forms. I start with the head and face, and mark in where the facial landmarks seem to make some sense. I am working from a photo reference, but since I am still a novice at this stuff, and also since it's not that important to me to get a perfect likeness of the model, I take some liberties with the face.
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The face seemed a little jacked in the previous image (despite my excuses), so I rearrange things a bit.
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Often (if I'm working in Photoshop) I will flip an image to check stuff. Doing this will show you mistakes that somehow you don't see in its normal state. I'm not sure why this is, but flipping the image comes in handy. Also, working on your image in its flipped state is kind of a nice way to shake things up a bit and make sure your brain is still on.
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Once I've got the main elements of the face painted, I flip it back to its original state and check it again. Looks more or less OK, so I trudge on.
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Almost there... it's pretty much just refining shapes, deciding what to focus on and what to leave as mere suggestion at this point. For me the face, arms, upper body and thighs, and how the light plays on those forms were the important parts of the image.
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I thought it would be nice to add a suggestion of volumetric light coming down onto the figure, and try to tie the subject and background together a bit more. I guess this is something like 95% finished, but I think you get the idea, and also by now I'm tired of this image and probably won't be inclined to noodle with it much more.
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