This is a digital painting of my son, Emmett, which I did mainly as a study by referencing an original photo image.

This, I felt, would lead to a greater understanding of form, colour selection, colour blending, texturing and overall how to generally go about painting a person and cloth materials, since I am relatively new to figure painting.

The entire image was done in Photoshop CS2 over a period of two weeks (a couple of hours a night, most nights), mainly using standard brushes (varying in size and opacity but always fully feathered), a Wacom Intuos3 9X12 tablet, and a 21" CRT monitor. The final image ended up being 3500x4500 pixels (including white areas) and I worked at 1000dpi.

This painting and tutorial were published in '2D Artist Magazine' in January 2007 - Issue 013

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